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"For Obama to suggest eliminating Medicare Advantage outright, however, is extraordinary. First, Obama made a campaign promise that he will let Americans keep their current health insurance. Eliminating Medicare Advantage would force 9 million seniors out of their current health plans and back into traditional Medicare. Second, a man who wants to reform America’s health care sector ought not begin the effort by proposing to take something away from seniors, America’s largest and most politically active voting block. Maybe the Obama folks haven’t learned the lessons of the Clinton health care battle.
Eliminating Medicare Advantage would be bad for non-seniors, too, because it would block innovations that make medicine better, cheaper, and safer. The main reason that the U.S. health care sector fails to coordinate care, fails to provide patients with electronic medical records, and fails to prevent medical errors is that whenever providers try to do those things, the traditional Medicare program’s change-resistant payment system punishes them for doing so. (Universal coverage kills.) Medicare Advantage plans use different financial incentives that actually encourage coordination, EMRs, and error reduction. What a novel thought…"
As the article makes clear, Dems/Lefties/"Progressives" want to kill Medicare Advantage because it's a major threat to their beloved government run/single payer/universal health care agenda item.
"Eliminating Medicare Advantage would be bad for non-seniors, too, because it would block innovations that make medicine better, cheaper, and safer."
ReplyDeleteHaven't you figured it out by now? The Obamazombie's don't want better, cheaper,safer, they want their way regardless of the cost or effectiveness.
The cherished universal health care agenda is far more important than holding down cost and improving the quality of Medicare.
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