Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., is hoping to squeeze his No UPCODE Act (No Unreasonable Payments, Coding, or Diagnoses for the Elderly Act) into the budget reconciliation package before the Senate vote, but the bill’s co-sponsor Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., is urging for it to be parsed out.
Merkley wants the Medicare tweak to be passed “through regular order, not in the context of a partisan bill,” he told Politico on Monday.
The Senate budget reconciliation package will be partisan because Democrats under Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have vowed to unanimously vote against it before it is constructed.
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