Healthcare Finance News April 19, 2024
Wendell Primus, a Brookings Institution Visiting Fellow, has a plan to help low income Medicare beneficiaries.
Brookings Institution Visiting Fellow Wendell Primus spent 18 years working on Capitol Hill as a senior policy advisor on health and budget issues for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Now with Brookings Institution Research Assistant Parish Rich Bingham, Primus has published a white paper, “Reducing premiums for low-income Medicare beneficiaries.”
Their research is striking, Primus said, because it shows a large disparity between what low-income Medicare beneficiaries pay for premiums and what Affordable Care Act beneficiaries with the same income pay.
ACA plan members whose income is no more than 150% of the federal poverty level pay zero in premiums, while an elderly single...
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