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The Better Care Plan Advantage
Peter A. Wadsworth (LinkedIn 12/11/2020) The Better Care Plan is a national health strategy to improve the affordability of health coverage and the quality of care received by Americans. It was developed by these eight senior healthcare executives, economists, and health policy researchers. Conclusions Medicare Advantage plans currently outperform Medicare fee-for-service (Parts A, B and…
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Medicare-for-All Part II: A Risk Assessment
Medicare-for-All Part II: A Risk assessment published on LinkedIn August 30, 2019. There are substantial obstacles to MFA becoming law, which render MFA a high-risk proposition that could crowd out more moderate legislative proposals, include: Elimination of Private Health Insurance (Sec. 107), an industry that represents more than 6 % of our Gross Domestic Product. The Freedom…
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Medicare-for-All Part III: Assessing the Alternatives published
This article compares Medicare-for-All with several alternatives including a public option, Medicare Extra for All, the Healthy America Program (revised) and Medicare Advantage for All using six criteria, such as universality of coverage, affordability, per capita costs and implementation time-frame. It concludes with seven recommendations, most notably nationalization of Medicaid and substantial changes to the…