Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC):
Unlike other Medicare reform proposals that have been introduced, we’re not eliminating fee-for-service or traditional Medicare… but what fee-for-service should have to do is it should have to compete with what the private sector can lay on the table also.”
Yeah, except we’ve already done that, it was called Medicare Advantage, and it cost the government substantially more than plain ol’ single-payer Medicare. Which is why we stopped doing it.
