Protecting the American Taxpayer and Medicare Act
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Protecting the American Taxpayer and Medicare Act
This bill makes several budgetary and technical changes, particularly in relation to Medicare.
Specifically, the bill continues to exempt Medicare from sequestration until March 31, 2022. (Sequestration is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.)
Additionally, the bill (1) temporarily extends other provisions under Medicare, including a payment increase under the physician fee schedule; and (2) requires any debits recorded for FY2022 on the statutory pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) scorecards to be deducted from the scorecards for 2022 and added to the scorecards for 2023.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3344: Protecting the American Taxpayer and Medicare Act. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-3344/
"S. 3344: Protecting the American Taxpayer and Medicare Act." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-3344/.
S. 3344, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-3344/.
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