looks like ALL of Medicare will be privatized by 2030. Then, good luck getting single-payer. Just as fossil fuel companies push to get infrastructure in place to compel the nation to continue using fossil fuels, insurers are pushing to get all of Medicare into DCEs in order to forestall any effort to expand traditional Medicare, i.e. gradually lower the age of enrollment in order to create universal single-payer in the U.S.
Biden continues to facilitate this.
"Medicare" "Advantage" was always a Trojan horse to get ignorant 'Muricans to voluntarily agree to privatization, even though the vast majority probably have no clue that's what they are doing.
https://justcareusa.org/dce-experiment-could-mean-total-privatization-of-medicare/]
Wall Street loves it. And the Trump administration, which promised to drain the swamp and stop Wall Street predations, instead turned Washington into a prosperous paradise for the worst Wall Street predators.
This move away from quality healthcare service to profit-oriented denials of care is worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year in taxpayer money flowing to private industry.
The CMS description of the program shows how much it is directed at Wall Street, not to the quality of care.
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Direct contracting is supposed to be a pilot program, yet Medicare has no plans to limit the number of people it enrolls in these new plans. Instead, Medicare has announced plans to enroll 100% of traditional Medicare members into DCE-like programs by 2030.
This massive handover appears to violate the limited authority that Congress granted to conduct an experiment. Without any Congressional oversight, CMS is moving all people on Medicare into these private business plans by the Orwellian redefining of its direct contracting authority with providers and suppliers.
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