In late 2020, the Trump Administration launched a new policy “experiment” called Medicare Direct Contracting (DC)...which was designed to privatize Traditional Medicare.
Under this model, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) could move more than 30 million Traditional Medicare beneficiaries into mostly commercial, for-profit plans called Direct Contracting Entities (DCEs), without seniors’ understanding or consent.
In ways similar to commercial Medicare Advantage plans, DCEs have an incentive to interfere with care decisions and are virtually certain to waste taxpayer money when compared with the efficiency of Traditional Medicare.
The Biden Administration is moving the DC program forward, threatening the future of Medicare as we know it.
PNHP collected thousands of signatures demanding an end to this program, and delivered them to HHS Sec. Xavier Becerra, who has the power to end Medicare Dirce Contracting.
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