Austin AFL-CIO Council Becomes Latest to Urge Biden to End Medicare Privatization Scheme

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The council's newly passed resolution warns that the scheme 'allows doctors and their offices to convert a patients' traditional Medicare choice into ACO-REACH coverage without first informing their patients.'

shifting traditional Medicare recipients onto privately run insurance plans without their knowledge or consent in the name of cutting costs and improving quality.

"Doctors and their offices will have a financial incentive to convert to ACO-REACH coverage as they will also be allowed to keep up to 40% of their revenue that they don't spend on healthcare services as overhead, resulting in a 'windfall profit' versus traditional Medicare programs that are only allowed to keep the balance of 2% of their revenue after paying for overhead," the resolution continues.

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