> provided Medicare Advantage.
Yet, this healthy cohort costs *more* to treat than their sicker cousins on the public plan - the fraud costs us about 11-14% of the total Medicare bill, and we could save $140b/year by zeroing that out:
https://pnhp.org/system/assets/uploads/2023/09/MAOverpaymentReport_Final.pdf
Zeroing out Medicare Advantage overbilling would pay for "an out-of-pocket spending cap, a public drug benefit, and dental, hearing, and vision benefits" for every Medicare patient with tens of billions to spare.
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