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How Medicare Might Change for 2026 and How It Will Affect Your Coverage
With the routine annual changes to Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans, combined with the looming potential passage of sweeping federal spending cuts, 2026 is shaping up to be a turbulent year ...
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Louisiana's Bill Cassidy has an idea to save money on Medicare. Will Congress take it up?
WASHINGTON — Ever since U.S. senators got their hands on the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act, fiscal conservatives ...
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State’s highest court blocks city retirees’ challenge to Medicare Advantage switch
The Adams administration notched a win in court today as it seeks to move city retirees onto private Medicare Advantage plans ...
Medicare Advantage is covering more and more Americans − some because they don’t get to choose
Compared with traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage plans are, on average, paid more by the taxpayer-funded Medicare system for covering each enrollee. Advantage plans also have more flexibility to ...
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City hits pause on Medicare Advantage switch, for now
The city will hold off on moving retired municipal workers to private Medicare Advantage plans despite getting the go-ahead ...
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Democrats introduce bill to establish a Medicare 'Part E' public option
Democrats in the House and Senate have introduced new legislation that would establish a "Part E" for Medicare, which would ...
I helped create Medicare Advantage. Here’s why I believe it needs reform.
Medicare Advantage has become a system dominated by a handful of massive insurers who are gaming the rules for profit and ...
Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage – the private alternative to Medicare that promised to cost less
(THE CONVERSATION) 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$83 ...