The American Medical Association adopted premium support as its official policy for Medicare reform.
Additional premium support for seniors would be the final piece of the puzzle.
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In such a voucher system (sometimes called premium support), traditional Medicare would disappear.
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At any rate, Mr. Ryan has always treated premium support as a guide for compromise and negotiation, not dogma.
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The premium support model offers the only guarantee that Medicare can keep its promise to seniors for generations to come.
Indeed, top Obama advisers, such as Jonathan Gruber and David Cutler, have endorsed premium support for the Medicare program.
They were the first to propose a premium support system for Medicare in a 1995 article in the journal Health Affairs.
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Ryan would put a cap on the per capita growth of the premium support equal to nominal GDP growth plus 0.5%.
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If properly utilized, the premium support payments should provide the identical quality of care as is available through the Medicare program.
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In the 1990s, premium support's chief advocates were Henry Aaron of the Brookings Institution and Bob Reischauer of the Urban Institute.
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But the key point is that premium support would reduce health costs over time by changing the incentives of the health market.
Medicare Part D provides premium support payments to seniors, which they use to purchase the private prescription drug coverage of their choice.
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It's called Premium Support, but it's understood to be a voucher program.
He used premium support when he designed the Stanford faculty health plan.
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These private plans would compete in an annual competitive bidding process along with Medicare determining the amount of the annual premium support payment.
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Republicans have refined their "premium support" model of Medicare reform since 2011, and Mr. Ryan considered applying it to those older than age 55.
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Aha, retort the critics, Mr. Ryan would only increase Medicare premium support based on the rate of overall inflation, while health costs are growing far faster.
Medicare would provide these seniors with a premium support payment they could use to pay for or offset the premium of the private plan they chose.
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Premium support is the only other plausible health-care choice, as well as the only way to pay for the promises government has made while still maintaining economic growth.
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Medicare would provide these future seniors with a premium support payment they could use to pay for or offset the premium of the private health insurance they chose.
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Mr. Ryan's plan, known as premium support, would gradually bring down health costs and spending, but it's a "cut" only in the sense of slowing the rate of growth.
The big difference is that the Purple Health Plan features what amounts to premium support for a single basic policy for all Americans, not just those now on Medicare.
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Economists from the center-left to center-right have been recommending premium support for decades, and it was first proposed by Stanford's Alain Enthoven in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1978.
It calls for offering senior citizens a choice between traditional fee-for-service Medicare and a premium support system that would provide a fixed government payment to help them buy private health insurance.
States could provide premium support for health insurance but put a time limit on benefits, and they could expect enrollees to prove that they are either working or on the hunt for employment.
Mr. Ryan's plan involves turning Medicare into a "premium support" system for those currently 55 or younger, meaning the government would subsidize beneficiaries' premiums as they buy either private health insurance or traditional Medicare.
That premium support payment is set by competitive bidding under rules ensuring it will be enough to pay for at least two of the competing plans providing at least the same benefits as Medicare.
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