Ryan and Wyden Reform Medicare
Representative Paul Ryan and Senator Ron Wyden have proposed a reform of Medicare that is similar to many other proposals that have been made of late, but with considerably more detail. They explain their plan in a Wall Street Journal editorial and in a white paper. Austin Frakt has a summary. Avik Roy has a discussion of some of the issues as well as commentary on what other bloggers (left and right) are saying.
Basically:
- Medicare would be redesigned: Parts A and B would be combined to produce a single plan with catastrophic coverage (no need for Medigap).
- Seniors would be able to choose among competing private plans, just as they do today under Medicare Advantage, and the regulations would be more flexible.
- There would be competitive bidding by the private plans.
- The growth of Medicare (and presumably of the government’s premium support for private plans) would be restricted to real GDP growth plus 1 %.
I like this plan. It is similar to the NCPA approach. But like other eat-your-spinach reforms, this plan shifts a burden to young people without giving them new tools to be able to manage that burden. Workers need to be able to save in tax free accounts in order to replace the lower level of spending by government in future years. About 4% of payroll would do the trick.
Good plan, but I agree with you John. They need to have a saving component.
It will take some time to convince young workers of the benefit of having tax free accounts, but it can happen.
Definitely a step in the right direction.
The growth path in this proposal is much more sensible than what was in the House Republican budget.
So why is having a public option bidding against private insurers unacceptable to to the right in the ACA but ok in Ryan-Wyden? What am I missing here?
Re Why Mandated Health Insurance is unfair. Not mentioned, is that the uninsured pays the retail price at the Hospital and the Doctor, not the price negotiated by the insurance company or mandated by Medicare. My primary doctor at the Mayo Clinic does not accept Medicare and he says he must charge the “rack rate” as the discounts negotiated with the insurance companies are based upon it. If he discounts the cash customer he jeopardizes his contracts with the carriers.
When it ranked lawmakers according to their progressivism on 2010 votes, the advocacy group Americans for Democratic Action scored Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., at 100 percent. Meanwhile, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., got a zero.But now, these seemingly politically polar opposites have confounded many on the right and left by cooperating on a new proposal to reform Medicare, the government health insurance system covering 48 million elderly and disabled.I am really inclined to see the future incidents regarding this reform.
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