Biden Budget Targets Drug Pricing, Enhanced ACA Subsidies, Mental Health Coverage
Although the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) enacted significant health care provisions, such as giving Medicare the authority to negotiate prices for select prescription drugs and temporarily extending enhanced premium tax credits for Affordable Care Act plans, President Joe Biden in his fiscal year 2024 budget proposal made it clear that those and other health reforms don’t go far enough.
However, the health care industry will have to wait for more granular details about, for example, how many more drugs Biden plans to add to the price-negotiation list, HHS officials indicated during a May 9 call with reporters. And Biden must also convince a divided Congress to put his proposals into legislation.