Remember The Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 (MCAA)? Most people don’t. It was a law that expanded Medicare coverage including adding prescription coverage. It was also a law that was quickly repealed because […]
Can Medicare for All continue under current law?
Medicare for All is thrown around like we can just push a button and all Americans are enrolled in today’s Medicare (with greatly enhanced benefits). That simply can’t happen. No system in […]
A new economic model to evaluate Medicare for All
It’s called common sense and fifty years experience working with employees and their health benefits and working with doctors and health plans. M4A as proposed by Sen Sanders and Rep. Jayapal significantly […]
Medicare Fraud and Waste
The fact is the Medicare is so massive, so complicated, and so bureaucratic while prevented from doing real management of the health care it pays for, that fraud and waste cannot be […]
Oh those health care gatekeepers. 𗀞
‪In England if you need health care you go to a GP who will arrange a specialist visit if needed; that makes good sense. In the US we called this process “gatekeepers,” […]
