Enthusiasm for Medicare for All is based on a great deal of misinformation and perceptions of the ideal health care system… which doesn’t exist. All this enthusiasm is fueled by politicians with […]
Low Medicare Pay Rates Haven’t Affected Access, MedPAC Told | Medpage Today
WASHINGTON — Even though Medicare has only increased payment to physicians by an average of 0.5% per year in recent years, it doesn’t seem to have affected Medicare beneficiaries’ access to care, […]
Paying for M4A
Whether or not Medicare-for-All lowers or increases total health care spending in the US is quite irrelevant to average Americans. What matters to them is will paying for M4A cost more than […]
The convoluted political thinking about Medicare
Back in 2015 Congress passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 and the President signed it into law on April 16, 2015. Among many changes to Medicare, it prohibits […]
What Medicare-for All May look like
We are many years away from M4A becoming reality, but unless some major unknown changes occur first, its coming. We have years of rhetoric ahead of us, years of promises, optimistic assumptions […]
