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How Medicare Advantage Plans Can Improve Care and Save Money

Medicare Advantage plans, the managed care programs that currently insure nearly one-third of all Americans over 65, are supposed to achieve two goals: Improving health outcomes by organizing care of older Americans and reducing costs. Those two goals can sometimes conflict, but a new study provides something of a roadmap for how plans can do both. The key, according to [...]

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Policy Experts Agree: The U.S. System for Financing Long-Term Care is Crumbling

America’s system for financing long-term care is failing, and the window for creating a payment system that works is rapidly closing. That was the conclusion of a morning-long expert session sponsored last week by the SCAN Foundation. While the participants differed on specific solutions, most agreed on four key issues: The existing system for funding paid long-term supports and services [...]