The glaring health equity gap in Democrats’ drug pricing plan

WASHINGTON — As Democrats close in on the biggest overhaul of the Medicare prescription drug benefit in 20 years, they’re ignoring a glaring health equity issue: unequal treatment for low-income adults 65 and older in Puerto Rico.

Residents of Puerto Rico pay the same Medicare taxes as other Americans, but they’re eligible for less help than other older adults when it comes to paying for their pharmacy drug premiums and their prescription drug costs. For all Democrats’ talk about health equity this Congress, they haven’t incorporated a bill that would level the playing field.

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