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Here is the actual report - in case anyone wants to make sure I'm not altering things (I'm not.... unlike, ahem).
You "think they mean".Ok - I'll bite.
Downloaded directly from their website - today.
Here is what it says:
Encourage more direct competition between Medicare Advantage and private plans.
Medicare Advantage (MA), a system of competing private health plans, is the major alternative to traditional Medicare for America's large and growing cohort of seniors. The program provides beneficiaries with a wide range of competitive health plan choices—a richer set of benefits than traditional Medicare provides and at a reasonable cost. Equally as important, the MA program has been registering consistently high marks for superior performance in delivering high-quality care. Critical reforms are still needed to strengthen and improve the program for the future.
Specifically:
1. Make Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option.
2. Give beneficiaries direct control of how they spend Medicare dollars.
3. Remove burdensome policies that micromanage MA plans.
4. Replace the complex formula-based payment model with a competitive bidding model.
5. Reconfigure the current risk adjustment model.
6. Remove restrictions on key benefits and services, including those related to prescription drugs, hospice care, and medical savings account plans
You are panicking about Point 1:
1. Make Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option.
But you're not reading it in context. I think they mean in point one that by reducing regulations (you know, points 2-6), it'll be "the default option;" they do not mean: "we will auto-enroll."
So... can we stop with the "Trump is going to auto-enroll people into a medicare advantage plan and people on this board will be out of work" hysteria?
Your turn.
This from the article I linked..."One of the policies proposed in the project calls for private-sector Medicare to become the only option for when seniors enroll in the federal health care insurance."