Want to Fix U.S. Healthcare? Start by Redesigning Medicare, Expert Suggests

Insurance stocks rally on report of bigger Medicare payouts

UnitedHealth, Humana, and Cigna each rose after-hours on the news....

Want to Fix U.S. Healthcare? Start by Redesigning Medicare, Expert Suggests

(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- Want to lower U.S. healthcare costs and improve outcomes? Redesigning Medicare might be a good place to start, said James Capretta, MA, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, here at an event on ways...

US boosts Medicare payments to insurers by over $25 billion

The U.S. government will pay private Medicare Advantage plans more money next year than it originally proposed in January, a major win for insurance companies that have faced increasing scrutiny in Washington.

Want to Fix U.S. Healthcare? Start by Redesigning Medicare, Expert Suggests – RamaOnHealthcare

— Taxes, premiums, benefit design, provider pay "should all be on the table," he saysWASHINGTON -- Want to lower U.S. healthcare costs and improve outcomes? Redesigning Medicare might be a good place to start, said James Capretta, MA, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, here at an event on ways to cut the cost [...]