Alice Rivlin — the former OMB director and co-author of the Domenici/Rivlin “premium support” proposal — admitted today that policy makers would face challenges in preventing private insurers from cherry-picking healthier (and more profitable patients) from traditional Medicare and increasing costs in the fee-for-service system within the envisioned “premium support” structure.
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Pete Domenici and Alice Rivlin propose a mechanism to enact automatic, across-the-board deficit savings if Congress fails to meet deficit reduction targets: we have developed a mechanism called Save as You Go, or “Save-go,” patterne... Read Post
A commenter noted that I was wrong to liken the Domenici/Rivlin “premium support” plan to Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) privatization scheme and suggested that the two are more different than I let on. That’s probably true for several rea... Read Post
Former Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) and former Clinton budget director Alice Rivlin are calling on the Super Committee to partially privatize the Medicare program for future retirees, the Hill’s Erik Wasson reports. The two budget hawk... Read Post