Piercing the myth: How privatizers got their mitts on Medicare
…failure of the MA program in its March 2022 Report to Congress: “The MA program has been expected to reduce Medicare spending since its inception … but private plans in…
…failure of the MA program in its March 2022 Report to Congress: “The MA program has been expected to reduce Medicare spending since its inception … but private plans in…
…Medicaid. Which every person knows is the national health insurance program for low-income Americans. The move led to record enrollment in a strictly means-tested program. A program designed to benefit…
…show that there are currently 8.5 million borrowers enrolled in the IDR program, representing only one in every five federally held student loans. Historically, the IDR program has covered less than 25 percent…
…a popular program that is used in every local hospital allowing nurses to work 72 hours and be paid for 80. “First they start a program to give us flexible…
…Savings Program. “Medicare is health insurance for people age 65+ and certain people with disabilities. The Medicare Savings Programs (MSPs) are a sub-set of Medicaid, designed to help people with…
…the current quality bonus program. It is not achieving its intended purposes and is costly to Medicare. Replacement with a new value incentive program for MA. In this report, we…
…to the success of the broader Social Security program. That ongoing failure has been a longtime focus of disability advocates and lawmakers, who have used the program’s milestone birthday to…
…are exhausted, the program would be able to pay the majority of scheduled benefits. If political leaders were to make changes to the program now – raising the income tax…
…to improve program integrity, reduce improper payments, and modernize delivery systems to fix flaws in the program that divert resources away from children, seniors, individuals with disabilities, and pregnant women…
…in the federal student loan program. Beyond massive taxpayer subsidies that were provided both to private lending companies and colleges, President Obama nationalized the lending program to where the Department…