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Medicare Advantage is covering more and more Americans − some because they don’t get to choose

Medicare Advantage is covering more and more Americans − some because they don’t get to choose Since the mid-2000s, the Medicare system has dramatically transformed. Enrollment in Medicare Advantage – the private alternative to the traditional Medicare program administered by the government – has more than quadrupled. It now accounts for the majority of Medicare […]

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Lowering the cost of insurance in Colorado – a new analysis of the Peak Health Alliance

Lowering the cost of insurance in Colorado – a new analysis of the Peak Health Alliance Health insurance premiums have continued to rise in the U.S. MoMo Productions/GettyImages A community-led partnership in Colorado designed to negotiate health care prices lowered health care premiums in 2020 and 2021, we find in our new paper in the […]

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A brief history of Medicaid and America’s long struggle to establish a health care safety net

A brief history of Medicaid and America’s long struggle to establish a health care safety net President Lyndon B. Johnson, left, next to former President Harry S. Truman, signs into law the measure creating Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. AP Photo The Medicaid system has emerged as an early target of the Trump administration’s campaign […]

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