Healthcare Finance News July 17, 2020
Halvorson envisions an integrated system which unites healthcare payment, improvement and racial and economic equity.
Former Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO George Halvorson is promoting universal healthcare through “Medical Advantage,” a plan uniting the goals of care improvement, cost savings and healthcare equity.
This is not a single payer plan. Halvorson is recommending a national Medicare Advantage system extended to cover not only the over-65 population it currently does but working Americans of all ages. Insurers would continue to compete for members.
Halvorson’s vision is co-supported by Dr. Mehmet Oz, the surgeon and television personality.
While they are not the first to raise the suggestion of replacing Senator Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All plan with a Medicare Advantage...
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