It is less clear how young people would respond to the Medicare model or other penalties for delaying enrollment.
Republicans have refined their "premium support" model of Medicare reform since 2011, and Mr. Ryan considered applying it to those older than age 55.
This would explain why the Romney campaign has chosen to attempt to distinguish the report from their plan (although there little to distinguish the Romney-Ryan Medicare plan from the model studied by Kaiser) rather than attack the findings of the Kaiser Family Foundation report.
They say Medicare should be reformed on the model of Congress's own Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan.
Today, in fact, millions of seniors participate in a similar model when they buy private Medicare Supplement (Medigap) insurance.
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The premium support model offers the only guarantee that Medicare can keep its promise to seniors for generations to come.
Here, indeed, we already have a working model for a bipartisan compromise: the Medicare Part D drug benefit that helps senior citizens afford the medicines they need.
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Indeed, the FEHBP has long been considered a model for market-based reform of the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
Model bills can also be introduced for Social Security and Medicare reforms to demonstrate the workability and appeal of those as well, though those cannot be enacted soon.
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That little-noticed clause (Section 1301 (a)(3) of the Affordable Care Act and proposed HR3315 to expand DPC to Medicare recipients) should have the effect of massively spreading the DPC model throughout the country.
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Those patients will be the elderly and the disabled on Medicare, low-income families on Medicaid, and (if the Massachusetts model is followed) people with subsidized insurance acquired in ObamaCare's newly created health insurance exchanges.
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