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Mortality Rates for Medicare Advantage Are Actually Significantly Lower and Better, with Fewer Deaths

September 30, 2022

This final official report from The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services shows that the mortality rate for Medicare Advantage is lower than the mortality rate that we currently have for standard fee-for-service Medicare.

We Have No Chance of Closing the Wealth Gaps in America Unless We Help Children Get the Right Start in the First Three Years of Life

May 12, 2022

We Need People to Understand the Truth, Value, Performance, Status and Current Function of Medicare Advantage in the Most Useful and Clear Way to Help us Create Better Future Health Results and Lower Costs for the Country

May 11, 2022

We are doing almost nothing as a country to have a positive impact on that trajectory — and that is unfortunate, sad, inadequate, wrong and unnecessary because we actually do have one current purchasing tool that we know can both improve the quality and the effectiveness of care and reduce the costs of care for significant numbers of people.

MedPac Got it Wrong

March 8, 2022

How Did Medicare Advantage Become a Very Successful Social Services Recovery Program for People Damaged by Social Determinants of Health?

January 5, 2022