Quote from WebWeaver on March 24, 2024, 8:45 am

https://www.commondreams.org/news/medicare-advantage-action

which quotes Wendell Potter and Philip Verhoef’s op-ed in the February 2024 issue of STAT:

"Traditional Medicare is already more efficient than its private counterpart, in large part because the approval process is much simpler and there aren’t the same incentives to upcode," the pair wrote. "Traditional Medicare spends far less of its funds on administrative overhead, and overall it spends less money per patient than Medicare Advantage while providing far superior access to doctors, hospitals, and treatments."