For the second year in a row, the Biden administration plans to reduce payments to Medicare’s private health plans.
This comes as Medicare Advantage—the system of private, competing health plans—enrolls more than 33 million people, well over half of the entire Medicare population.
Private health plans now dominate Medicare coverage.
The Left is relentlessly hostile to private health coverage, and that includes Medicare Advantage. For example, Dr. Donald Berwick, then-President Barack Obama’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, sees Medicare Advantage’s growing popularity as a threat to the viability of traditional Medicare, and recently remarked, “I would like to see Medicare Advantage slowed or stopped right now, or at least forced to have better carriers.”
That’s rich. While running Medicare, Berwick praised Britain’s…
