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Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage – the private alternative to Medicare that promised to cost less

  • Written by Grace McCormack, Postdoctoral researcher of Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California
Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage – the private alternative to Medicare that promised to cost lessMedicare Advantage was supposed to find efficiencies, but instead is costing taxpayers an extra $83 billion a yearAriel Skelley/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Medicare Advantage – the commercial alternative to traditional Medicare – is drawing down federal health care funds, costing taxpayers an extra 22% per enrollee to the tune of US$8...

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