Here's a bit more about about the ongoing effort to privatize Medicare and make
it less effective. Eric
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Subject: WaPo DCE article today & reply
17 Feb 2022 Thu 10:40p CT
Subj: WaPo DCE article today & reply
For anyone who lacks paywall access to today's WaPo article on DCEs, I'm
appending full text -- along with my two-part comment (split due to WaPo's
length limit).
Best,
Ira
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The Health 202
Analysis
Progressives are up in arms over a Medicare experiment

A newsletter briefing on the health-care policy debate in Washington.

By Rachel Roubein
Today at 8:01 a.m. EST
[17 FEB 2022]
Welcome to Thursday's Health 202, where today this previous health providers
reporter is turning back to her old beat.
Today's edition: A key White House official says the country is approaching a
phase where “covid isn’t a crisis,” and President Biden announced temporary
replacements for his science adviser. But first:
The administration is under pressure to ditch an experiment involving private
sector in traditional Medicare
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) has called for the end of a Trump-era Medicare
payment experiment. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
A fight over a Trump-era Medicare pilot program is coming to a head.
For weeks now, the payment experiment — which loops private insurers and
investor-backed companies into the traditional Medicare program — has faced
backlash from influential progressives and single-payer advocates. They view
this as a gateway to privatizing Medicare, and they're kicking up a fuss as the
Biden administration considers whether to continue, modify or kill the model.
There are op-eds from progressive leaders. A sign on letter from Physicians for
a National Health Program, which advocates for single-payer, calls for the
program’s end. And there's been a flurry of conversations over the past few
weeks with both critics and champions of the program pleading their case.
• “I just don’t think that involving private companies in a very
extremely efficient and popular Medicare program is the way to increase
coordination of health care,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) — the chair of the
Congressional Progressive Caucus who led a letter to top Biden health officials
calling for the program’s termination — said in an interview earlier this month.
But major provider groups have rushed to the program's defense, arguing it’s
not the end of traditional Medicare and that the pilot could help improve care
and lower costs.
• In a letter Monday, over 220 trade groups and other providers called
many of the complaints lodged against the program “misleading and flat out
false.” They urged CMMI to “fix, don’t end” a model they say has helped better
coordinate care amid the pandemic.
• “This is indeed the grand irony of our times,” Don Crane, president
and CEO of America’s Physician Groups, said in a recent interview, “because we
have a program that is manifestly better for beneficiaries…. higher quality,
better outcomes.”
There were initial indications that the Biden administration's decision could
come Thursday — as Politico first reported — setting off another round of
furious lobbying. However, an announcement isn’t happening today, according to
a person familiar with the matter.
The backstory
Over a decade ago, Obamacare created the CMS Innovation Center and charged it
with testing ways of paying for and delivering care. It’s part of a broader
effort to shift the health system away from paying for the sheer number of
services a patient gets, but rather the quality of the care they receive.
That’s where the direct contracting model comes in. The Trump administration
first announced the time-limited payment experiment in 2019, as it looked to
rev up the Medicare innovation lab.
Last year, CMS chose 53 health-care entities to participate in the program,
where they’ll get paid a fee for managing the care of people in the traditional
Medicare program. Program participants are generally rewarded for keeping
patients healthy and lowering costs.
Next steps
Biden’s CMS has been determining what to do with two of the program’s options.
(It put a broader third effort to test managing care by geographic region on
hold nearly a year ago.)
Tweaking the model: Provider groups have suggested guardrails the program could
set up to address concerns. And even some who are critical of the program don’t
believe it needs to be killed entirely.
• “It would be disruptive to simply stop it cold,” said Don Berwick, a
former Obama-era CMS administrator.
• Guidelines for the program could include: a very small size, exclude
insurers and venture capital to the extent it can be, and ban the unlimited
expansion of the model until it’s been seriously tested, he said.
The view from CMS: The agency is “actively listening to the comments being
made” about the program — feedback which is “invaluable as we consider the
future of the model,” according to a spokesperson. The agency will provide more
information “soon,” but didn’t lay out a timeline.

By Rachel Roubein
Rachel Roubein is a national health-care reporter for The Washington Post and
author of The Health 202 newsletter, a daily morning tipsheet focused on health
policy and politics.
*** (MY 2 COMMENTS POSTED:) ***
I'm over 65. I chose traditional Medicare explicitly to avoid corporate
middlemen meddling in my healthcare, a living nightmare from stories I see
almost daily, including stories in the Washington Post. The Biden
administration must shut down the "Direct Contracting" model NOW. It's forced
privatization — a quiet coup aimed at taking over entire Medicare system
(according to the government, not me). I would have no say in the matter.
Further, from what I see, not one person in a thousand understands what is
being stolen from them — freedom of choice, for starters. They have no clue
this is happening or what its long-term implications are for their healthcare.
WaPo is doing readers a vast disservice by your rightwing reporting on this
issue:
1. POLITICIZATION. It happened to be progressives who discovered this lethal
scam and quickly organized resistance to it. But it could have been
libertarians or anyone else. You politicized an issue that urgently needs
neutral nonpartisan framing.
2. "EXPERIMENT"? Parroting the government line, you call Direct Contracting an
"experiment." It's anything but. If it were truly experimental, would there
already be set-in-stone plans to take it nationwide? "Experiment" is a fig
leaf. Dig a little deeper. Actually read the government documentation. (You
know, like the "progressives" did.) Your sloppy, negligent 'journalism' in this
instance is an embarrassment. Am I angry about this? You bet I am.
3. "PAID A FEE"? A fraction of the truth. Direct Contracting Entities (DCEs)
will keep a substantial portion of any cost savings they generate. These
corporate middlemen, not your doctor, will decide what's medically necessary
and what treatments (if any) are 'appropriate'. They then will pocket the money
they don't spend on your care. It's a system ripe for corruption, a so-called
"moral hazard". But it's MY life and health that will be on the line.
CONTINUED from my previous comment:
4. "HEALTH-CARE ENTITIES"? That’s what your article calls the DCEs. Would you
call utterly ruthless Wall Street private equity firms “health-care entities”?
Because that’s who owns most of the DCEs, directly or indirectly. And by the
way: Wall Street players aren’t flocking into this investment space for their,
uh, health. They see a gold mine — billions a year in profits — for ‘managing’
the ‘care’ of patients forced into it, like me. It's a whole new way to loot
the US Treasury while posing a potentially lethal threat to patients.
5. “DISRUPTIVE”? You quote: “It would be disruptive to simply stop it cold,”
said Don Berwick, a former Obama-era CMS administrator. Did anyone ask the
obvious, “Disruptive how?” We’re talking about a program that has not yet been
implemented. Once again, I’m embarrassed by WaPo’s sloppy reporting. The only
‘disruption’ would be to anticipated Wall Street profits in this new scam.
6. Direct Contracting is one type of managed care called an ACO, or Accountable
Care Organization. The feds have run several pilots of different ACO types.
Studies show that NOT ONE has proven to consistently save taxpayers any
significant costs. Again, WaPo appears to be grossly negligent in this
reporting.
7. Meanwhile, says Berwick, the DCE model could be “fixed,” such as by banning
the model’s expansion until it’s been fully tested. Note, indeed, “the fix is
in:” there will be no stopping the model. Just pause expansion until it’s been
fully tested, whatever that means. IT. IS. ALL. SCAM.
Direct Contracting must be killed, not “fixed.” Permanently.
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Subject: Re: Medicare privatization is happening as we speak
From: CathyC Courtney
<houstonc3courtney@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:houstonc3courtney@xxxxxxxxx>>
Date: Thu, February 17, 2022 5:34 pm
To: pat herdon <phptrkhrdn@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:phptrkhrdn@xxxxxxxxx>>
Cc: Stephen Chao <skwchao@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:skwchao@xxxxxxxxx>>, Kathleen Duncan
<kndroses@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:kndroses@xxxxxxxxx>>, Jill Hinckley
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<glkopas@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:glkopas@xxxxxxxxx>>, Byron Tucker
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Guerrero <chalieland@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:chalieland@xxxxxxxxx>>, DrChristineAdams
<ckadamshcfat@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:ckadamshcfat@xxxxxxxxx>>, Ira Dember
<ira@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ira@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
Thanks Dr Herdon. The more we can alert, Indy& educate folk to action! The
better.
More news of the controversy today :
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This group has already collected >75K signatures on a petition to stop
privatization of Medicare, and I'm unaware of how many PNHP or HCFAT members
have signed it.
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From: Alex Lawson, Social Security Works
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Date: Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 5:16 PM
Subject: Medicare privatization is happening as we speak
To: <phptrkhrdn@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:phptrkhrdn@xxxxxxxxx>>
As long as they could stay under the radar, the private corporations who are
trying to expand the so-called “Direct Contracting” program were happy.
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Dr Patrick,
Already, we’ve collected more than 50,000 signatures urging President Biden and
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to end Donald Trump’s
Medicare privatization experiment.
As long as they could stay under the radar, the private corporations who are
trying to expand the so-called “Direct Contracting” program were happy. But
now, they’re feeling the pressure―and they’re contacting HHS to fight back.
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Here’s what’s happening: Before they left the White House in disgrace, Donald
Trump and Jared Kushner set into motion a process to privatize Medicare just a
bit at a time.
Kushner set up, and Trump approved, a pilot program to allow Wall Street-backed
startups and private insurance giants to take over portions of traditional
Medicare―and people with Medicare might not be notified until it's too late!
Now, corporations who profit from this partial privatization of Medicare are
asking the Biden administration not to cancel their program, but to “improve
it” by adding some “guardrails.” Here’s the thing: This program breaks
Medicare’s universal promise. There’s no reforming a plan that inserts a
corporate bureaucrat between a patient and their doctor in order to deny care
and make Wall Street money.
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