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CMS BLOG: Medicare for All? Just another name for a government-run, single payer system

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Medicare has a plethora of misaligned financial incentives that work to increase costs for taxpayers and beneficiaries, and create challenges related to fraud and abuse. percent from 2011-2016, from $17.6 It is certainly not because the ACA has worked. After the ACA took effect, premiums skyrocketed and choice dwindled.