A Brief designed explanation taken from the Center for American Progress commentary and analysis. It finds Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are overpaid by 22 to 39 percent. Instead of overpaying Medicare Advantage the curbing of MA overpayments should be used to improve the Medicare program for all beneficiaries. This is nothing new and I have […]
Better explanation on the “One Big Beautiful Bill” impacts Medicare by Merrill Goozner at GoozNews. It hits providers and insurers directly, not beneficiaries. People need to be educated about the impact — not the $500 billion number. I’m no defender of the cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on the American people by the House Republicans’ […]
Libertarianism is the political philosophy of middle school boys and arrested development. This is well-illustrated by the bleat that people should just “do your own research.” Look, I made an entire career out of research and was well-compensated for my judgement. But I certainly wouldn’t trust my judgement on which drugs are safe and effective […]
Remember when RFK Jr. promised to have an answer to the cause of autism by September 2025? He’s already walking that back: “We will have some studies completed by September, and those studies will mainly be replication studies of studies that have already been done. We’re also deploying new teams of scientists, 15 groups of […]
Brief introduction to Overpayments to Medicare Advantage Plans . . . Ending Overpayment in Medicare Advantage – Center for American Progress Through the Medicare Advantage (MA) program, private insurers are expected to save money by reducing waste, avoiding overuse, and providing more coordinated care than is available through traditional Medicare. Research finds MA plans are significantly […]
Between 2022 and 2023, there were 1.5 million excess deaths in the US. These are people who would be alive if the US mortality rate were comparable to other industrialized nations. “The authors agree that further research is needed to fully understand the driving factors behind excess mortality, but suggest looking to other nations for […]
And this amount is still wasted today. Not much has changed since 2014 when this was written and also appeared on Angry Bear. I have added some links at the end for reading and backup. And like then, rather than attack the issue, Congress is willing to cut services to the people needing Medicaid. It […]
I was reading about various healthcare issues I found on the internet and in particular Today on Medscape. The snippets are of longer articles which go into greater detail. You may find other articles to be of interest on Medscape at Latest Medical News, Clinical Trials, Guidelines, Today on Medscape. That is if they are […]
In Arizona’s Mr. Andrew Biggs is lecturing us on how Republicans are going to pass a spending bill benefiting those who do not need tax breaks to get by. Instead of cutting Defense or some other programs, Andrew along with other AZ Republicans such as Elijah James Crane will be cutting Medicaid which supports lower […]
CEPR’s Brandon Novick wrote a piece on Medicare Advantage plans. It is brief enough to make for easy reading, It also gets to the point of Medicare Advantage plans. As it was commercial Medicare Advantage plans were overcharging for the same care Traditional Medicare would charge. In many cases the plans would not approve the […]