When care turns costly, patients leave private Medicare

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/bu-wct100115.php

Public Release: 5-Oct-2015
When care turns costly, patients leave private Medicare
Brown University

People are free to switch between traditional, public Medicare and private Medicare Advantage plans every year. Under normal circumstances that traffic is equal in either direction -- that is, a new Brown University study shows, until more costly services, such as hospital, at-home or nursing home care, become necessary. Then, despite federal policy to prevent this, the migration becomes decidedly away from the private plans toward the public one.

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