Under the Affordable Care Act, government payments to hospitals are cut if they have high rates of readmissions or high numbers of infections and patient injuries. For the readmission penalties, Medicare cuts as […]
What’s really wrong with our health care system?
1. Nobody knows the fair and accurate price for anything. So called transparency is therefore irrelevant 2. Every payer from Medicare to Medicaid to private insurance to individuals pays something different 3. […]
Bad to Worse – HumbleDollar
Proponents of Medicare for All in the style of Sen Sanders and Jayapal claim overall savings in large part from lower administrative costs and lower fee payments to health care providers, but […]
Traveling outside the US and you have Medicare? – be aware. You need additional health care coverage
Click on the link below for more information. If you have Medigap coverage make sure your plan has international coverage. Not all plans do. Medicare usually doesn’t cover health care while you’re […]
A Dozen Facts About Medicare Advantage in 2019 | The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Even after the ACA cut the subsidy to Medicare Advantage Plans enrollment continued to grow. MA plans typically add extra benefits and in many cases without additional premiums above the Part B […]
