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Medicare is quietly being privatized. Does anyone care?

Por: MarketWatch Politics August 12, 2023

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As recently as . By 2033, . This is a remarkable evolution. Medicare was created as a government program. But today more than half of its beneficiaries are in the hands of private insurers, rather than the government. Private Medicare plans have existed since the 1970s but only really took off in recent decades. A big change came under President Obama. His Affordable Care Act, which became known as “Obamacare,” . Kaiser reports that those... + full article



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