Health Affairs July 22, 2025
This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Supplemental Benefits in Medicare Advantage, featuring analysis and discussion from all stakeholder perspectives with the goal of informing the rapidly changing policy landscape on this topic. We are grateful to The SCAN Foundation for its support of this work.
Editor’s Note
A significant part of this article relies deeply on the testimonials of two Medicare beneficiaries who generously participated in interviews for the Public Policy Lab’s The People Say project: coauthor Josephine Mitchell, and another who gave permission for her stories to be shared but asked to change her name, as listed below, to protect her privacy. We are grateful for the beneficiaries’ contribution; their experience represents the very...







