HCR Update from Mark Sanna: The House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee’s Tuesday hearing will focus on Medicare’s traditional fee-for-service program “and consider ideas to update and improve the benefit structure to better meet the needs of current and future beneficiaries,” according to a news release. Subcommittee chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, said the hearing would help the panel “investigate the limitations, inefficiencies and inadequacies of traditional Medicare’s cost-sharing structure and identify ways to bring the Medicare program in to the 21st Century.”