Budget deal sets back key healthcare bills

Budget deal sets back key healthcare bills-thehill: Congress’s two-year budget deal is throwing up hurdles for a pair of healthcare bills, taking away almost $13 billion in offsets that had been proposed to pay for the legislation.  Both bills have already passed the House and are expected to reach the Senate sometime before 2016. One of those — the 21st Century Cures Act — passed with nearly 350 votes as lawmakers rallied behind the push for streamlined drug approvals and a boost in medical research funding.