C. Premium contribution methods vary widely. B. Told CPAC to design the demonstration and choose the sites. C. CPAC complete its tasks. E. Congress is threatening to kill the Demonstration. Defined contribution for all plans reduces costs.
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May help compensate plans that attract high cost enrollees. Consumers may like being protected from having to pay the full premium differential of the high-cost plan, should they ever want to join it. Remarks to the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Mr. Chairman and Committee members, thank you for the opportunity to appear before this Committee. I and Roger Feldman, my colleague at the University of Minnesota, have spent the last twenty years working on analyses of private sector health insurance purchasing strategies, and thinking about ways to apply the most successful of those strategies to the Medicare program. Our work is non-partisan.