it's called medicare, whether you're in medicare advantage over medicare traditional. second, it's difficult to see the rationale on a national basis for gang private plans more than medicare currently spends on the traditional program. particularly when there's so much concern with the deficit and debt. medicare has historically said payments to m.a. plans bundle or equal to what medicare would expect to play in the video program who enroll in the plan. this changed in 2003, and by 2009 payments were considerably higher than medicare would've paid for the same beneficiaries if they were in the traditional program. this cost every beneficiary more and added part b premiums and it provides little incentives for m.a. plans to become more efficient. when i examined the 2009 plan data i found wide variation in m.a. plans costs relative to traditional medicare spending. even going for plan levels, plant types and payment levels. that suggest there was room for a lot more efficiency in the program variable across plains. and the policy changes that were in the aca reflect re

medicare. the affordable care act willed decreased rebates given to medicare dennis plans. as is two and half hours. -- this is two and a half hours. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> if you will take your seats, the subcommittee will come to order. the chair will recognize himself toward opening statement. program,are advantage an alternative to the original program, provides health care coverage to medicare that if a share easter private health plans offered through organizations under contract with the centers for medicare and medicaid services, cms. plans may offer additional benefits not provided under the care ffs, such as reduced cost- sharing for vision and dental coverage. they also generally have a ander rate of satisfaction, approximately 28% of medicare beneficiaries have chosen to participate in medicare dennis. the affordable care act has noted in july 20 4, 2012, congressional budget office cbo bill

of medicare advantage and the medicare prescription drug benefit. and if we really to believe that it's better to stitch in time saves nine and is better to treat early before it is used its well-established, perhaps we are seeing some benefit from passing the medicare modernization act. to any of you have an opinion as to whether not that maybe playing a role in these lower costs? >> i don't know how much of the current slow down and health spending would contribute to prescription drug therapy but we know that others have found a party program has reduced cost elsewhere in medicare. and that's been an important part of the change in the cost structure of medicare. it's also been important part of structure of entitlement, the party program which allowed this 10th anniversary on sunday is probably most successful on entitlements. we should try to model every reform we can as closely as possible. >> that was constructed to be more like insurance and less likely entitlement if i recall those discussions. i want to think they put on the panel. i know

medicare but about 18%. the aca required changes to medicare advantage payment rate to better align with the costs associated with traditional medicare. these changes were estimated by the congressional budget office disabled a $135 billion over 10 years. so you can't have it both ways. every time we identified a way to save money, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle say, this is so terrible, this is being cut, that's been cut, and then they claim that the aca is causing costs to rise. can't have it both ways. according to the 2010 medicare payment advisory commission report to the congress, the 2009 medicare spent about $14 billion more than the fisheries -- beneficiaries enrolled in medicarmedicare advantage plansn would've spent if they stayed in traditional medicare. i want to go along the lines of the question that mr. sarbanes did and asked ms. gold, how did we get to the point where we are paying so much more for private insurers through medicare advantage to provide medicaid benefits? isn't

medicare part d works differently than the other parts of medicare.art a and part b are government run and are funded through the medicare trust fund. part d is taxpayer-funded. it is not something that is affecting the life of the trust fund, as far as my understanding of it. people pay their premiums for it. it is optional. you can sign him for medicare part d or you have the option to not sign up. if you do not sign up and then you later have drug needs, you pay a penalty for not signing up. whenwant you to sign up you don't, so that you can help subsidize the cost when you do. host: our guest is charlie ornstein with propublica. roaring river, north carolina. identifying as a medicare part d dr. or recipient. caller: i am a recipient. thanks to c-span. i just recently, after four privateof being a eligible for medicare, i get tickled at people getting confused about the aca. once you start with medicare, then you get confused. you mentioned canada and i have been listening to c-span this morning. a quick question. the medical look at insurance in

medicare.luding 308 million from medicare advantage a loan. load. in april of 2010, the medicare1, actuary projected that the. >> that's what result in an enrollment decreased in the m.ae program of as much as 50%. the aca also required cms toefce effect a genuine, 2012, to provide quality bonus payments, the m.a. plans that achieve four, 4.5 and five stars on a five star quality rating system developed by cms. rather than implement the bonus structure, laid out in the law d which would have led to these cuts going into effect in 2012, cms announced in november oft wt 2010 that it will conduct a nationwide demonstration. the mti.a. quality bonus payment demonstration, from 2012-2014, to test an alternative method for calculating and awarding w thnuses.s. the general accounting office,he ese gao, in response to a r request by senator orrin hatch,y noted that the demonstration projec projects designetsd made quote e unlikely that the demonstration would produce meaningful resultn in the quote. an

and then medicare d. nines that service saying that it isn't reasonable and necessary and then the patient can appeal that the denial was unreasonable and unnecessary and there should be payment for that service. what's going on here is the patient is receiving hospital outpatient services and they would like to receive hospital inpatient services so there hasn't been a denial of the hospital inpatient services there is no appeal of the decision not to admit the patient. if the inpatient come if there is an inpatient admission and the physician admits the patient and then the stay is later denied the patient can appeal the denial saying i should have received inpatient services. they were medically reasonable and necessary. so my limited understanding is the patient cannot appeal a decision not to order or not to do something. >> just to expand on that a little bit, i would agree with that. as illustrated it said that the way this might come up with b. as an observation they get sent to a skilled nursing

here's the problem, single payer is basically like medicare is now. everyone pays in, everyone gets the benefits. the problem with medicare, to use an example, they are running a pyramid scheme. they are running out of young people to pay for the old people. the ratio used to be four to one. by 2013 it will be 2.4 to one. but that's not the only problem, it's running out of money. it's waste in fraud alone estimated by the government accountable office, $17 billion a year! it provides medicare that has okay coverage, it's just horribly inefficient. and if we get there, you want to talk about with social security, medicare and now a single payer system, completely bankrupting the company, that's the way to do it. >> right. the country. >> the country, sorry. >> all right. christian, you like the single payer system. >> absolutely. it's much more efficient than the system we have right now. so much of health spending goes to add min straytive overhead for duplication of services and processes. it doesn't make any sense. doctors spend so much time figuri

remember, medicare supplement insurance helps cover some of what medicare doesn't pay.es that could really add up. these kinds of plans could save you in out-of-pocket medical costs. you'll be able to choose any doctor who accepts medicare patients. and there are virtually no referrals needed. so don't wait. with all the good years ahead, look for the experience and commitment to go the distance with you. call now to request your free decision guide. this easy-to-understand guide will answer some of your questions and help you find the aarp medicare supplement plan that's right for you. >>> this is a difficult case for me for a lot of reasons. i there that this is a mom too, i remember from last hearing she said i'm always willing, always willing. to me that's a sign of a really great mother but at the same time, she will acknowledges and admits that maybe he's not ready to come home. i mean, we've got a young man who is punching holes in the wall. we have a young man who is a busing drugs and we've got a young man who left home for four or five or six weeks to avoid mi

packages fix about medicare advantage. i don't believe fee-for-service medicare and his fixable. the focus should be on fixing medicare advantage in the way we described earlier. the promises are just that. their promises it if you like your individual, keep it. the funding are the odds of promise. the promise can't be all true. >> fixing it would involve ulceration funding? >> absolutely. >> at present, d.c. anyway or any mechanism by which that could have been? is there anything to give you optimism that funding in fact could be restored? >> under current law, it won't happen. we need to change. >> let me ask you this. i was entering 1980, 1989. i don't know if you were involved. >> i'm old, yes. [laughter] >> kinross kautsky of the ways and means committee put forward a catastrophic care program. he was very proud of it in the past congress bipartisan vote as i recall. they went home satisfied with what they had done. then something odd happened. people rejected the law that was passed. they rejected it largely because in a similar way of funding around in a way that would be

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it's equally true for people on medicare in the 130,000 regulations that go along with medicare. this is only going to grow and so at least for our practice since we have no idea what the exchange will bring in this 90-day grace period issue is such an enormous issue for us that we don't feel we can actually see patients under these exchange contracts that we were pushed into without choice until this body or other bodies figures out what the rules are going to be so we can continue to provide service to be able to pay her staff. >> thank you very much. >> would the gentleman yield? dr. novack i just want to make it clear, under this 90-day plan if you have let's say a 2 billion-dollar practice that you pay all your people and so one you could end up with one quarterback quarter of that, $500,000 were patients aren't covered in don't pay. this is the kind of exposure you could have paying all your people, paying out $500,000 getting back none of it. that's the uncertainty that was in the law. >> the concern is almost all insurance there is almost always a 30-day grace. things hap

medicare, and kate are not the only ways. whether the tri-care program, all the other systems, we have to move forward in a comprehensive and consistent way in terms of the way we organize finance and incentivize the haters on the parts of all our systems, and those systems which have their own politics have to be brought to the table as well. >> great, thank you, sheila. while folks are getting their questions ready, i will ask the first question. this has to do with the concrete nature of some of the proposals that are on the table right now. panel asike to ask the specifically about spending caps and targets. the way the proposals are set up, would they really come into play? sense of the proposals is unlike an sgr, where the spending caps drives things, the approach that these proposals took the spending caps that they were a act up, and they were therefore cbo. what is different is they were laying out concrete policies, which, if they work out, should keep spending below the cap, and the cap is a act up. even as a backu

and medicare advantage. having that information available about which plans and how they are setting up maybe unnecessary barriers to care would be helpful. and enable people to not only compare benefits but to compare how this benefits aren't ministered by particular plans and making sure that people are choosing those plans that are fulfilling the promise that a withf us have talked about regard to courtney did care. i think once again with this , theof custom tailoring stars program needs to be better. people want to know when you are looking at your two cars and consumer reports there is not only stars in the car's overall but on engine performance and break performance and other kinds of performance measures. we will get to a place where we can customize those even more and that will help folks choose between the program. i want to reiterate that i think the original day care program or the traditional medicare program which we have had since 1965 is the bedrock, something that people continually know i

real quickly about the medicare advantage issue, there is nothing tangential to the change in medicare advantage as regards the affordable care act. remember that the affordable care act cuts between 130 and $150 billion out of medicare advantage this decade and that's why you're seeing cuts to medicare advantage networks. >> so when you got, when you're talking about preexisting conditions, and i'm going to ask you and dr. english, we just exchange as ranking member talked about, a prejudice to preexisting conditions, we just traded one prejudice for another? would you agree with that? >> correct. >> dr. english, would you agree with that. >> correct. you haven't, in my opinion increased care. you shifted care. that is quite obvious. >> i want to get to that. i want to applaud you. you have family members and dear friends that have ms. so thank you, very, very much there is this prejudice now because we're talking about acute care versus chronic conditions right, dr. english? >> correct. >> so you're handicapped when we're talking about chronic care, are we not? >> correct. >> and so

by the way, as ipad comes in and medicare rationing occurs and 22 new tax increases occur, and the medicare advantage cuts occurred, it's going to be the bad gift that keeps on giving onto next year. that's why all the red state democrats are scared to death. >> first of all, i disagree with everything you said, but -- everything you just said -- but i am concerned that some medicare part d was passed, and it wasn't working, we worked with republicans to fix it. here's what we have from your great friend erick erickson. the strategy now, he says should be the website they can't fix, but we must deny them the opportunity to fix the new law itself. let the american people see big government in all its glory and offer a repeal. in other words, hold back support, road for -- is that your strategy? do you sign on to erick erickson's strategy? >> no, i don't root for failure. >> that's what he's saying. >> help, there's an interesting term. >> what's the fix? >>> regarding 300 maybe, who knows? medicaid expansion for tort reform? who knows, but there is no negotiation. one part passed this. it wa

. >> el 7 de diciembre vence plazo para medicare no tiene que ver con reforma de salud . >> madres buscan a sus hijos desaparecidos en yaya touré . >> es hora del noticiero más premiado . >> los saludamos . >> la policía de richmond investiga pelea, autoridades están tomando medidas para que no pase buenas noches . >> ¿qué tal? buenas noches . >> en renuon donde se hablo de seguridad hablamos con una joven dice que no deben ser maltratados y también hablamos con porta voz del distrito escolar escolar . >> julis estudia en preparatoria hércules donde peleo con alumnas . >> me dejaron rasguños y moretones denuncie pero la subdirecotora no hizo mucho . >> la investigación dice que la joven inicio el altercado por el acoso . >> la directiva escucho preocupaciones . >> en nuestro distrito la seguridad es prioridad queremos que los niños se sientan seguros ahora hacemos investigación y traemos estrategias para asegurar que todo niño este seguro . >> algunos padres dicen que no debió pasar es preocupante se supone que dejamoas a los hijos para educación y tener algo así es preocupante para toda

perry from the red state of texas sitting down with his leadership in the legislature to expand medicare. and that is because they see that their constituents are yearning for and want affordable health care. and they have to service their constituents to the point where rick perry under pressure from his leadership and legislature is looking to actually expand medicare and also to talk about the exchange and providing access to states which have the least insured population throughout the country. it's about time they start waking up to address the needs of the constituents, rather than playing to, you know, the rhetoric of trying to move their conservative extreme right -- >> when more americans find out that for obama care they cut dollars to medicare, when more americans find that out, they're going to vote more republican,

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y maÑana se vence el plan de hacer cambio en el plan de cobertura de medicare y muchos sdo desconoceneficiarios de medicare revisen su cobertura actual y la comparen con la o tra que estaÁ disponible en el 2014 >>> ahora ¿ quÉ deben hacer las personas que califican para este perÍodo de inscripciÓn? >>> sÍ las personas llaman al 1800 medicare y para representante le habla en espaÑol y puede llenar su aplicaciÓn y inscribirlo en este nuevo plan sÍ decide cambiarse a otro plan >>> bueno nos decÍa dÓnde llamar roberto ¿ quÉ pasa sÍ las personas se pierden el mazo qple vence maÑana hay manera de cambiar estos servicioss? >>> hay ciertas excepciones, pero la mayorÍa de los beneficiarios es el Único perÍodo donde pueden hacer cambios sin ninguna restricciÓn libremente. queremos que si no estas satisfechos con su plan que hagan el cambio a travÉs del 1800 medicare maÑana la fecha lÍmite. >>> bueno pues ahÍ estÁn los telÉfonos en pantalla y gracias a roberto dÍaz especialista en planes de seguro de medicare roberto buenas tardes gracias >>> gracias. ♪ (mÚsica) ♪ >>> otra vez con william bonill

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medicare is already in deficit. medicare is already spending more money to provide for seniors than is being taken in off people's paychecks every week. but medicare does have a trust fund, as part a does. social security has a trust fund. people have that money come off their paychecks every week when they go to work, and they believe, correctly, in my opinion, they have a right to receive the benefits of that. they're not happy. they believe america is going on the wrong track when we take that money and spend it, therefore jeopardizing the confidence they should have that their retirement and social security is going to be in place. now, we know there are some deep problems with medicare and social security actuarially because there are people living longer and more people are retiring and we have to deal with some problems there, but what i want to say is the worst thing you can do is to do the things necessary to make medicare sound, tighten up payments to providers, perhaps, although there is a limit at some p

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action item reconciliation of kaiser medicare rate. >> good afternoon, neale kosher. nice to see everyone again. i'm going to walk you through the document labeled kaiser medicare rate final rate for 2014. when we met on june 13th of this year, we stated that the medicare advantage rates for kaiser were preliminary, that we needed to get additional information brought to kaiser. they cooked the final rates and they would let you know at that time. as soon as we knew what they were and then we can talk about how we decide what to do whether they would have to be higher, the rates or lower. we always hope because of the timing and everything comes in better and there is money to be appropriated in some fashion for the cost of the rates. we finalized everything in the system. that is done to be clear on that part. so what happened was kaiser did their magic and got their final numbers and our number we posted at the 14th of june was $346.45. the final number is $344. that saves the city $2.8 million. which is a very good thing. they do their calculations. >> the city and

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