#Medicare Advantage was supposed to save the government money over standard Medicare. Instead, it’s costing taxpayers an extra 22% per enrollee to the tune of $83 billion a year. Health care policy experts who study Medicare explain: theconversation.com/taxpayers-… (Grace McCormack and Erin Duffy, University of Southern California) #healthcare
Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage – the private alternative to Medicare that promised to cost less
Rather than finding efficiencies and saving money all around, the private companies that administer the Medicare Advantage option to Medicare are profiting at seniors’ – and taxpayers’ – expense.The Conversation
