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The Reagan administration said, the congress, it would be ready to accept the development of the disease is intended to cover the cost of prescribed drugs, the elderly and disabled people outside hospitals.

The Reagan administration said, the congress, it would be ready to accept the development of the disease is intended to cover the cost of prescribed drugs, the elderly and disabled people outside hospitals.

If the agreement holds, it could pave the way for Senate approval of a bill on the protection of the 31 million elderly and disabled against the costs of catastrophic illnesses. In July the House of Representatives had a bill similar, with a prescription drug benefit, by a vote of 302 to 127 The House of Representatives and the Senate two bills are based on proposals already made this year by President Reagan and Dr. Otis R. Bowen, the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The legislation before Congress would increase Medicare more than any other measure in the 22-year history of the program.

Until this week, the administration has adamantly against the drug benefit for that expensive. Thus, it is, for example, asserts that the drug taking advantage of the house would cost more than $ 6 billion in 1990.

But Joseph R. Wright, vice-director of the Office of Management and Budget, said today that officials of the interim administration hatte”eine very Grundsatz”nach certificate several weeks of negotiations on the issue with senators.

”We have a lot of progress towards an agreement on the general design of the new program,”he said,”but we always try, for details, and it is not already done so. ” ‘

Medicare already covers costs for medicines available to beneficiaries, while during a stay in hospitals. But it is not generally the cost of drugs for outpatients.

Under the tentative agreement this week, health insurance would be drugs practice started in 1990 with cancer drugs operates, immunosuppressive drugs and antibiotics intravenously Negotiating Guide Congress and Administration . The coverage rate of cardiovascular disease medications and diuretics should be completed in 1991, and other drugs prescribed for the year 1993 would, “she said. Patients would pay the first $ 600

Medicare would pay 80 percent of the costs of these drugs on the first $ 600 in one year. Patients should pay $ 600 of its own means or with private insurance.

Under the Senate unanimously by the finance committee, the beneficiaries would not pay more than $ 1700 for a hospital or medical care services, Medicare in 1988. This figure would be increased to $ 1850 under the agreement negotiated this week, administration officials said.

The Association of drug manufacturers, a trade group, said he feared that a full coverage of prescription drugs to Medicare could achieve what the Confederation price controls. The administration approved the origin of this argument that a new drug profitieren”könnte the pharmaceutical industry in a federal program of regulated services.”

Officials of the administration have adopted a more flexible position after finding it had proved that the Congress would authorize a drug benefit recipe, even if the president against him. Senators in the negotiations on the issue contain John Heinz of Pennsylvania, John H. Chafee of Rhode Island and Dave Durenberger of Minnesota, all Republicans, along with George J. Mitchell of Maine and Thomas A. Daschle in South Dakota, both Democrats.

Senator Lloyd Bentsen, a Democrat, Texas is the main sponsor of the Senate, he said the coverage for prescription drugs. The bill the Senate, as the Assembly bill is entirely funded with premiums of beneficiaries.