Congress must remove unjustified subsidies to inefficient private health insurance plans that have added to the cost and complexity of the Medicare program. Medicare currently pays the private plans -- now called the Medicare Advantage program -- 13 percent more on average than the same services would cost in the traditional fee-for-service program. Translation: GOP free-market health care is a crock. |
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OpedNews volunteer from 2005 to 2013.
Amanda Lang was a wonderful member of the Opednews team, and the first volunteer editor, for a good number of years being a senior editor. She passed away summer 2014.