Conservative Academics Suggest MA Changes To Reform Medicare

Researchers in a study released Thursday (Nov. 21) suggested reforming Medicare by building a premium-support type system based solely on Medicare Advantage as an alternative to Democrats’ Medicare for All built off the current system, but the researchers said a premium support system should be set up without a public option and MA risk adjustment would need to be retooled first. Amitabh Chandra, a professor at Harvard University, and Craig Garthwaite, a professor at Northwestern University, released a paper on...