ReportsindicateKennedy is considering an effort to overhaulMedicares payment formula.
Right now, Medicares coding system favors surgeries and specialty care over primary care and prevention.
Private insurers often base compensation levels off this formula, too.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks with Donald Trump at an event in Duluth, Georgia, on Oct. 23, 2024.Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images
In recent years, conservatives developed two competing policy agenda programs.
One was the notorious Project 2025, led by the Heritage Foundation.
Project 2025includesa plan to make Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option for newly eligible beneficiaries.
Oz has also pitched Medicare Advantage plans on his show, theDr.
Virtually all other countries negotiate drug prices.
government subsidizesresearch and development on virtually all drugs that are approved for sale.
When he first ran for president, Trumppledgedto negotiate drug prices like crazy, butfailedto follow through on it.
Legislators should cap drug prices so that companies cant charge Americans substantially more than Europeans pay.
There, Kennedy recognizes a basic reality that most Republican politicians and policymakers deny.
Theres no evidence for such claims.
Its one the next government could end, if Trump and RFK Jr. want to.
Will they pick that important fight or fake ones, instead?
