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Some Medicare Advantage Plans Do Provide Value—the HMOs

Reader Don Grunt pointed out that not all MA plans are alike. He wrote: “I'm a Medicare Advantage product manager in Oregon where 45% of beneficiaries sign up for MA plans (highest in the country) because we offer good plans and the competitive market keeps us honest.  So I don't work in Miami or any of the wild west of MA plans.”

Oregon is one of those states that belongs to what I like to call “Canada South” (a region that includes part of the Northwest as well as the northern tip of New England--Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine). These are states where medicine seems less “money-driven,” and by and large, patients get better value for their health care dollars. In many of these states, care is more collaborative. It struck me that Don Grunt, who knows the MA system from the inside, was probably right.

I kept his remarks in mind when I wrote a piece for the “HealthCare Rx” last week. (I am part of the “HealthCare Rx” standing panel, a group that spans a spectrum of opinion, ranging from Ezra Klein to Newt Gingrich. Each week, Rachel Saslow, the Rx editor, poses a question.  Last week’s query : “The Senate Finance Committee is debating a bill that would trim $113 billion from the privately-run Medicare Advantage plans over the next decade, a move that proponents say will bring its funding in line with traditional Medicare coverage. Do you think such a move will hurt beneficiaries?”

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