News from The Hill: House leaders close in on $200B Medicare deal

News from The Hill House leaders close in on $200B Medicare deal By Sarah Ferris and Peter Sullivan House leaders are closing in on a deal to permanently avert cuts in payments to physicians under Medicare, two House aides confirmed Friday. The deal would offset only about $70 billion of the more than $200 billion cost of making the permanent fix, however, which would likely draw opposition from conservatives that the agreement would bust the budget. Read more here.