Questions for those on Medicare (or who have experience with it)

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32. I understand that

I'm not proposing that we charge Medicare beneficiaries more...I am proposing that we restructure supplemental insurance for those who can afford it to pay most but not all of the costs, so that those people would not be completely detached from the cost of their care when making decisions, especially toward the end of life when aggressive treatment has a low probability of success but is often demanded by family members who want the doctors to do anything that might have any chance of prolonging their life a little bit, no matter what the cost to Medicare.

This in turn would help protect Medicare and maybe even bring down costs a little by reducing overall costs. It would also make supplemental insurance more affordable by reducing how much it has to pay out.