{"id":929,"date":"2023-03-23T18:28:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/?p=929"},"modified":"2023-03-23T18:28:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:28:02","slug":"the-policy-and-politics-of-medicare-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"The Policy, and Politics, of Medicare Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Medicare Advantage, the private-sector alternative to original Medicare, now enrolls nearly half of all Medicare beneficiaries. But it remains controversial because \u2014 while most of its subscribers like the extra benefits many plans provide \u2014 the program frequently costs the federal government more than if those seniors remained in the fully public program. That controversy is becoming political, as the Biden administration tries to rein in some of those payments without being accused of \u201ccutting\u201d Medicare.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden has signed a bill to declassify U.S. intelligence about the possible origin of covid-19 in China. And new evidence has emerged potentially linking the virus to raccoon dogs at an animal market in Wuhan, where the virus reportedly first took hold.<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s panelists are Julie Rovner of KHN, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Jessie Hellmann of CQ Roll Call, and Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico.<\/p>\n

Among the takeaways from this week\u2019s episode:<\/p>\n