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Turning Medicare Into a Premium Support System: Frequently Asked Questions
(By Gretchen Jacobson and Tricia Neuman for Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
Premium support is a general term used to describe an approach to reform Medicare that aims to reduce the growth in Medicare spending by increasing competition among health plans and providing a stronger incentive for beneficiaries to be cost-conscious in their plan selection. On June 22, 2016, the House Republicans included in their health care reform plan a proposal to gradually transform Medicare into a system of premium supports, building on proposals of the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, when he was Chair of the House Committee on Budget, as well as the proposals of many other policymakers.1 Read article here…
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