The Trump administration will soon start paying $90 each to more than 20M Medicare enrollees to help them pay for their Part B premiums, the latest financial incentive offered by the White House ahead of the midterm elections. The one-time payments are expected to reach eligible enrollees by direct deposit or check in early October, according to a White House fact sheet on Friday. Of the roughly 64M participants in the government-backed healthcare program, some enrollees, including recipients of Medicaid for premium payments, will not be eligible. The funds will come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, which Congress established in 2008 with $2.2B to improve the Medicare fee-for-service program; Trump called it a pointless slush fund that Democrats created. Medicare Part B covers doctor visits, treatments administered in doctors' offices, and preventative tests, and the payments are separate from the $500 checks the administration began sending to nearly 1M Americans enrolled in Affordable Care Act plans last Thursday.
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