Opinion: Medicare has different standards than the FDA. That’s how it should be
Medicare has different standards than the FDA. That’s how it should be.
Who among us is looking forward to getting older in 2024? Not senators (most of whom are 65 and older), the two leading presidential candidates (100% of whom are over 75), or the eight Cabinet members who are already more than 65 (growing to 10 in February). Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are younger (averaging 58 years of age), but even so, many are already over 65.
But as someone who worked on Capitol Hill, for the White House, and for the Department of Health and Human Services, I am amazed that Washington’s aging movers and shakers offer so little support for the one federal agency with a mission to take care of us as we get older: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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