Thursday, May 21, 2009

New curbs on private Medicare plans

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is putting new curbs on private insurance plans that are popular with seniors in Medicare, but have been criticized for 'marketing abuses'... [snip]

Administration officials said the changes include 'winnowing' the number of versions of a plan that insurers can offer and banning an occasional practice of charging patients more for brand name drugs...

[Step one: remove competition.]

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