Forbes June 11, 2020
Steve Forbes

Medicare Advantage For All Can Save Our Health-Care System

George Halvorson, former CEO of Kaiser Permanente, and Dr. Mehmet Oz propose here a quick and comprehensive way to provide Americans with universal health-care coverage and better health care, especially poor, underserved communities. How? By having health insurance bought through the highly successful Medicare Advantage program. One-third of people on Medicare have opted for Medicare Advantage because beneficiaries get better care thanks to competing plans. As the authors explain, Medicare Advantage could be expanded quickly and would be infinitely better than the highly-flawed idea of Medicare for All. A timely and important piece, to say the least!

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Topics: Govt Agencies, Healthcare System, Insurance, Medicare Advantage, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Provider
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