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

The Health Care Blog

Bush touted the promise of affordability of prescription drugs and the federal government’s commitment to providing older adults with high quality healthcare experiences, all with the underlying intent of privatizing the administration of Medicare, by shifting spending from traditional Medicare to Advantage. healthcare system.

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Here's what we're getting ourselves into

Your Local Epidemiologist

trillion agency and far-reaching public health policy. Wellness marketing has made this idea extremely popular, but as a public health policy, it is overly simplistic, biased against technological advances, and can potentially harm our health. Increased healthcare costs: While RFK Jr.