Majority of U.S. Senators Express Support for Medicare Advantage

At a time when a broad debate over the future of value-based care delivery and payment has emerged in the U.S. healthcare system, a bipartisan majority of U.S. senators expressed their support for the Medicare Advantage program, in a public letter to Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

On Friday, Feb. 18, 63 senators, led by Senators Catherine Cortez-Masto (D.-Nevada) and Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), signed the letter addressed to Administrator Brooks-LaSure. The Washington, D.C.-based Better Medicare Alliance, an advocacy group that describes itself on its website as “a community...