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Medicare Advantage Poses Challenges to Health Care Cost-Effectiveness and Equity

The Health Care Blog

Medicare Advantage (Advantage), originally conceived in 1997 during the Clinton Administration as ‘Medicare + Choice’, has progressively grown and become an established health insurance option for those 65 and older. Bush administration in 2003, the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) renamed Medicare + Choice as Medicare Advantage.

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LISTEN: Mokshda Kaul on making the clean energy transition work for all

Environmental Health News

And this is 2003 and I remember one of my uncles came home and he made fun of me, and he was like, "This is so stupid. So I still remember this, because it's, it's like, etched so vividly in my memory. I was in third grade and we had to make posters for something in school. Like, why are you concerned about the environment and the planet?"