Speaker Paul Ryan is using health care policy as a way to luretwo very different groups of lawmakers into supporting a stop-gapspending measure that will prevent a federal governmentshutdown.
He’s hoping Democrats will support the bill if it includesfunding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, whichran out of funding on Oct. 1 and is currently subsisting on $2.85billion of emergency spending that Congress appropriatedto get it through March.
To woo the most conservative members of his own party intosupporting the bill, Ryan has also included a provision to suspendthe medical device tax, a part of the Affordable Care Act that hasdrawn bipartisan criticism, from conservatives as well as Democratswho represent areas where the medical device industry issignificant. The tax was suspended for two years as part of asimilar budget deal at the end of 2015, meaning that it is onceagain in effect this year.
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