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
Medicare Advantage was supposed to find efficiencies, but instead is costing taxpayers an extra $83 billion a yearAriel Skelley/DigitalVision via Getty ImagesMedicare 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...
