{"id":11762,"date":"2018-10-17T07:59:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T11:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11762"},"modified":"2018-10-17T07:59:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T11:59:41","slug":"medicare-for-all-cms-chief-warns-program-has-enough-problems-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11762","title":{"rendered":"Medicare For All? CMS Chief Warns Program Has Enough Problems Already"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration\u2019s top Medicare official Tuesday slammed the federal health program as riddled with problems that hinder care to beneficiaries, increase costs for taxpayers and escalate fraud and abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS), said those troubles underscore why she opposes calls by many Democrats for dramatically widening eligibility for Medicare, now serving 60 million seniors and people with disabilities, to tens of millions other people. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/medicare-for-all-cms-chief-warns-program-has-enough-problems-already\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=66748548&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-__IxzSeWeP7G-wX-jiRoWCiOl6DvIOTGp-fOdi8YXotxEVcoEF1DIhFNKIllEF8xfHXv4I4aeUfsOBA32xdlE6YImo2g&amp;_hsmi=66748548\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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