HHS Secretary Price doesn’t rule out Medicare changes
HHS Secretary Tom Price said the Trump administration and Republicans “believe in the guarantee of Medicare for our seniors,” but he wouldn’t promise there would be no cuts to the program in an interview on CBS's “Face the Nation.”
“The challenge that we have, as you well know and your viewers know, is that Medicare is, as some folks have said, going insolvent or going broke,” Price said. “So we believe strongly in the guarantee of Medicare and make certain that it’s a viable, financially secure program going forward, so that seniors now and in the future know that it will be there for them.”
Price also weighed in on the forthcoming Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act and its potential impact on insurance coverage.
Watch the full interview at the link below:
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