“Beware the growth of Medicare Advantage, Harvard professor says”

“Beware the growth of Medicare Advantage, Harvard professor says,” by Liza Berger, McKnight’s Home Care

Quote:

“Medicare Advantage (MA) is growing too fast, putting the Medicare program in jeopardy. The government needs to put speed bumps in place to curb its trajectory and bolster traditional Medicare (TM). That is the opinion of a Harvard professor and senior adviser to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, who wrote an article about the issue late last week in Health Affairs. MA, a private form of Medicare insurance, is expected to surpass 50% of eligible Medicare lives within the next year and 69% of the Medicare population by the end of 2030, J. Michael McWilliams, M.D., Ph.D., noted.”

 

LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform:

Which is the bigger problem? MA or TM (traditional Medicare).