The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2014, The New York Times Company). Medicare Advantage plans — private plans that serve as alternatives to the traditional,
In a prior post I described James Capretta’s plan that could replace Obamacare’s exchanges with lighter-touch regulations. I also wrote that his plan seemed to
I cracked open the latest MedPAC report to read its recommendations on hospital readmissions. There wasn’t much new in it beyond what I could infer
Sam Baker reports: The Medicare agency had initially proposed a 2.2 percent cut in Medicare Advantage payments. But on Monday the agency said it had
The JAMA paper by Song, Cutler, and Chernew on the consequences of a Wyden-Ryan type premium support plan is getting a lot of attention. However,
Below is my checklist for a complete Medicare premium support proposal. (I’ve never seen one in the wild.) It’s subject to change, and you can
In JAMA, Zirui Song, David Cutler, and Michael Chernew estimate some of the consequences of the Ryan-Wyden premium support plan for Medicare. Nationally, in 2009, the
Austin is on vacation, but I feel compelled to give him a victory lap nonetheless: The Obama administration said Wednesday that it would vastly expand
This post has an unfair title. I’m writing this to say that I’m not going to be writing about Paul Ryan’s new plan for Medicare,
Roger Feldman, Robert Coulam, and Bryan Dowd* previously had estimated that a competitive bidding premium support program for Medicare could save 8 percent of Medicare spending (pdf).
As Don blogged yesterday, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) have introduced The Seniors’ Choice Act. It includes a variant of premium support and a
This post is part of a series. If you haven’t read the prior posts in the series, you really should. The introduction explains what I’m doing and
