BOSTON — There are huge stakes for health care in the upcoming U.S. election — and leaders from across the political spectrum weighed in on policy priorities for the next U.S. president at STAT’s flagship Summit.
Speakers included former officials from the Biden, Trump, and Obama administrations as well as top industry executives, who addressed health care topics from Medicare to drug pricing to artificial intelligence. We collected the highlights from our coverage below.
Joe Grogan’s forecast for Medicare Part D: It’s a ‘time bomb’
Should former President Donald Trump resume office, Republicans will need to repeal or revisit President Joe Biden’s signature drug pricing reform and expanded Affordable Care Act premium subsidies, according to Joe Grogan, a former Trump White House official.
Grogan argued that Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act destabilized Medicare Part D, the program’s prescription drug pricing benefit. He forecast that higher premiums would send the Part D …