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Proposals include making sure seniors in Medicare benefit from discounts that middlemen negotiate with drugmakers, establishing a spending cap on out-of-pocket prescription costs, and potentially making generic drugs free for low-income seniors.

Employers have until March 1 to notify the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services whether their drug plan is creditable or noncreditable.

A new proposal on paid leave would let new parents finance time off from their jobs by slightly delaying the time at which they would collect Social Security benefits.

A proposed national "Right to Try" law would make it easier for terminally ill patients to get access to experimental drugs, but physicians and medical ethicists, as well as the drug industry, oppose such legislation.

According to documents circulating on Capitol Hill, the deal includes $6 billion in funding for treatment of mental health issues and opioid addiction and $2 billion in extra funding for the National Institutes of Health.

President Donald Trump has frequently been accused of trying to undermine Obamacare. New data show that by at least one measure he didnt do a particularly good job of it.