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Several health insurer stocks tumbled Tuesday following a proposal from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that would raise payments to insurers less than expected next year.
Trump’s near-flat Medicare Advantage rate sparks insurer selloff, raising fears of benefit cuts for 35 million seniors.
Millions of Americans got a nasty reminder this month of just how costly health care coverage is.
Health insurance is too important to be misguided on Medicare's ins and outs.
The Trump administration’s pay bump is not a cut to the program but rather a “right-sizing” of taxpayer-funded insurance, said Carrie Graham, the director of the Medicare Policy Initiative at Georgetown's Center on Health Insurance Reform. The for-profit insurance companies are “not going to be forced to cut benefits,” she added.
Although hospital-owned plans are only a sliver of the Medicare Advantage market, their enrollment continues to grow, reflecting the overall increase in Advantage members.