STAT+: Manchin won’t support new health policy unless Congress rolls back Trump tax cuts

Sen. Joe Manchin made clear that he will dash Democrats’ health policy hopes, including drug pricing reform and efforts to expand Medicaid, if Democrats don’t roll back Republicans’ 2017 tax…

WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat who will determine how much domestic policy his party will accomplish for the rest of the year, said Tuesday that Democrats’ health care policy priorities are a no-go without tax reform.

“If you don’t fix the tax code, you don’t do anything. You can’t continue to throw caution to the wind, it’s not responsible. People think [you’ve] got to do something. No,” Manchin said when asked about the prospects for health care policy reform at a meeting of the American Hospital Association.

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