Why Privatization of Medicare is Bad

• FEHBP Rates Increase as Much as $4,572.12 a Year: Is This Really A Model for Medicare?, from Families USA (September 30, 2003)
• Private Plans: A Bad Choice for Medicare, from Families USA (September 26, 2003)
• What Happens When Traditional Medicare Has to Bid Against Private Plans? An Example of How the House Bill Would Privatize Medicare, from Families USA (June 18, 2003)
• Why Medicare Matters to Medicaid Beneficiaries and Their Families, from the Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc. (May 2003)
• The Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: Program Design, Recent Performance, and Implications for Medicare Reform, from the Kaiser Family Foundation (May 2003)
• Managed Care Plans Offer No Real Choice for Rural Medicare Beneficiaries, from Families USA (May 2003) 
• Data Concerns in Out-of-Pocket Spending Comparisons between Medicare and Private Insurance, from the Urban Institute (May 2003) 
• Bush Plan to Privatize Medicare: Limiting Patient Choice of Doctors in Iowa, from Public Citizen (May 2003)
• Can Managed Care and Competition Control Medicare Costs?, from Health Affairs (April 2003) 
• Medicare + Choice Fact Sheet, from the Kaiser Family Foundation (April 2003) 
• Issue Brief: WHY FEHBP Isn't a Good Option For Medicare, from Families USA (March 2003) 
• Medicare, Modernization, and FEHBP, from the Urban Institute (March 2002)
• Average Out-of-Pocket Health Care Costs for Medicare+Choice Enrollees Increase Substantially, from the Commonwealth Fund (November 2002) 
• Medicare versus Private Insurance: Rhetoric and Reality from Health Affairs (October 2002)