Republican Senators Demand Information on Improper Medicaid Payments
The senators’ letter cited the November 2020 CMS improper-payment-rate report and the 21.4 percent improper-payment rate in Medicaid.
Medicare
Re: Sanders’s Medicare Ultimatum
Sanders probably wants to add dental benefits to Medicare to take away a selling point of Medicare Advantage plans.
Sanders Issues Ultimatum on Medicare Expansion, Which Manchin Says He Opposes
One of them will have to climb down, or else President Biden’s entire agenda will collapse.
Medicare’s Trust Fund Is Not Worth Much
Lawmakers use Medicare’s trust fund to kick the can down the road on entitlement reform.
Another Looming Disaster
The dire warnings of the Social Security and Medicare trustees should give Democrats pause on their reckless fiscal agenda.
Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Budget Proposes Biggest Health-Care Expansion Since Obamacare
The budget resolution, enabled by Republicans, would mean the largest expansion of government in the health care arena since Obamacare.
Democrats’ Reckless Medicare Expansion
Instead of fixing our broken entitlements, Democrats want to make them more generous than socialist Canada’s.
With Democrats Pushing to Expand Medicare, Trustees Report Is over Three Months Late
Democrats are now pushing to expand the financially-troubled Medicare program. Unfortunately, the annual Trustees report on its finances is more than three months overdue.
Ilhan Omar vs. Math
Even if we were to abolish the Pentagon and zero out defense spending, it wouldn’t even cover one-sixth of the cost of sustaining a Medicare for All system.
How a ‘Public Option’ Could Save Money
To save money, a ‘public option’ would need to set payment rates by fiat and force health-care providers to take them.