Get ready to hear about another round of claims about Medicare “cuts” that aren’t actually cuts. (via MaddowBlog)
And why, pray tell, is this happening right now, more than 20 months before the next Election Day? As Roll Call, the insurance industry and Republicans are trying to “fend off changes to private Medicare Advantage plans:
So far this year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released two rules aimed at reducing overpayments to Advantage plans while increasing oversight — moves long recommended by nonpartisan government watchdogs and economists. But those rules are being framed by Republicans as cuts to Medicare amid a debate over the solvency of the program, the 2024 elections and the national debt.
As readers might assume, the granular details get very complicated, as HuffPost’s Jonathan Cohn explained very well inBut to briefly summarize, the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services is recalibrating its Medicare payments and trying to rein in overpayments, as insurers claim that the changes represent undue cuts.Roll Call, “Implying that what they perceive to be cuts to Medicare Advantage payments runs afoul of President Biden’s promise or pledge not to cut Medicare .
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra was less diplomatic. “Any claim that this Administration is cutting Medicare is categorically false. Leave it to deep-pocketed insurance companies and industry front groups to characterize this year’s increase in Medicare Advantage payments as a cut,” the cabinet secretary said in a written statement. “Disinformation being pushed out by high-paid industry hacks and their allies hurt Medicare beneficiaries and the Medicare Trust Fund.
As for Republicans, who’ve found themselves on the defensive on this issue — to my mind, for good reason — they’re continuing to present an argument along the lines of what Florida’s Scott said last year: If the government is sending less money to the Medicare program, it’s necessarily a “cut,” regardless of the context, motivation, or beneficial policy effects.
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