Medicare Effectiveness Debate

Medicare probably helps a bit too

Why not look at medicare's track record instead ? Its extremely popular with all its users

Medicare and Medicaid pay some of the lowest rates. Private insurance from employers and individual policy holders subsidizes the cost for the elderly and poor. Charging the same price would disrupt that, creating all kinds of political fallout.

Seems to work pretty well for Medicare.

The US taxpayer (aka Medicare) is picking up that tab.

Medicaid & Medicare are practically "single payer" government-monopoly health insurance plans. They're notorious for severely under-paying doctors et al, to the point that many refuse to take such patients at all.

It might be helpful to read this recent HN submission and its comments:> Stop the Medicare “Advantage” Scam Before Medicare Is Dead https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35001728

Earlier discussion about "Medicare Advantage" plans.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35001728

1. Medicare only covers the most expensive in terms of health care costs demographic. Knowing nothing else I’d expect having more people on Medicare to correspond with higher costs per capita. We make 25 year old men who statistically have nearly no healthcare costs buy insurance while providing it to their 90 year old grand parent.2. Medicare was not allowed to negotiate drug prices until this year. Drug comonies basically got to wr8te themselves checks. In some ways the Us taxpayer subsidiz

It's not. When you turn 65, you have the option to enroll either in "Original Medicare", which is what we usually think of when we talk about "single payer healthcare in America", or you can enroll in Medicare Advantage (aka Medicare "Part C"), where the premiums that would go to the CMS instead go to private insurers like Humana, United, Oscar Health, and Clover. These plans replace Original Medicare, also cover Part D prescription drug benefits, and often inc