Democratic plans to expand healthcare programs hang in the balance as spending bill stalls
“Democrats’ hopes to expand federal healthcare programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare, hang in the balance as President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending program faces the prospect of being scaled back.
‘I think that they can still get it done, but it may have to be done on a scale that’s smaller than we would have hoped,’ said Dan Adcock, the government relations and policy director at the liberal National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. ‘I think this is something that, at least in the advocacy community, people had anticipated this and know that this was going to be a likely outcome. I think there’s still going to be a bill, but it may not be as ambitious as we would have liked.'”