A group of Democratic senators are calling on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to keep a proposed Biden-era rule that would have allowed Medicare and Medicaid to cover drugs used to treat obesity after the Trump administration decided not to finalize it.

Democratic Sens. Jeff Merkley (Oreg.), Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), Cory Booker (N.J.), Ben Ray Lujan (N.M.) and Gary Peters (Mich.), asked that Kennedy re-issue the rule proposed under President Biden.

"We urge you to re-issue a rule........

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