A bipartisan, bicameral agreement on health care spending announced on Jan. 19 includes one element of President Donald Trump’s recently announced Great Healthcare Plan, but makes no mention of the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium tax credits.
The agreement provides $116.6 billion to the Department of Health and Human Services, which Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said champions the administration’s Make America Health Again priorities.
That includes money to strengthen primary care, fund rural health initiatives, combat chronic disease, and prioritize the Food is Medicine initiative, including by funding nutrition research.
The health spending is part of a $1.2 trillion government funding package that also covers the Departments of Labor, Education, Defense, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies….
Bipartisan Health Funding Deal Earmarks $418 Million for Rural Health
