Democratic Sens Gather Support For Additional FFS Medicare Benefits

Three Democratic senators are urging their colleagues to ramp up the traditional Medicare program to include more benefits, some of which are already offered by private Medicare Advantage plans, and the Center for Medicare Advocacy suggests that could be done by reinvesting what it calls wasteful spending on MA plans into new fee-for-service benefits. “For years, Congress has acted to strengthen and add benefits to the Medicare Advantage program, neglecting to take the same opportunities to strengthen traditional Medicare, on...