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Publication Date: July 2008
Publisher: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Edwin Park
Research Area: Health
Keywords: Health care costs; Income diversity; Health insurance
Type: News release
Abstract:
Contrary to the President's claim today, the Medicare bill would not "harm beneficiaries by taking private health plan options away from them."Â It would merely slow the explosive growth in private fee-for-service plans, the most overpaid and least efficient private Medicare plans.