Medicare

“Well, if you come into the Kaiser Permanente system, you will see that, ah, commercial days are something like a 150 per thousand, and Medicare is now down to 700.”

“So we did not do very well As a country in the rollout of the ACA but we're going to have a bigger challenge eventually when we take on the rollout of revised Medicare program.”

“Now the typical network price negotiated by the big insurance companies is 275%, 250 to 275% of Medicare, Medicare rates. Price we're negotiating right now, 80 to a hundred percent of Medicare.”

“The employer market is larger than Medicare. It's larger than ACA combined. It's just the biggest market.”

“40% of all acute care or 39% of all acute care in Medicaid is avoidable. That's like three times what it is in Medicare, three times what it is in commercial.”

“All of the creativity, all the capital is going into largely Medicare and employer. And Medicaid is actually the biggest, and frankly, I think the most readily addressed challenge in, in US healthcare. And there was very little happening to take that on.”

“Medicare refused to cover GLP-I ones for obesity care.”

“The payer that pays the most for diseases of aged population is Medicare which kicks in after 65. Before then we have a multi-payer system where patients Tend to rotate their insurance every few years. And so there's really not much incentive for someone to co…”