{"id":26188,"date":"2026-07-01T11:14:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26188"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:14:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:14:43","slug":"the-proposal-would-make-medicare-advantage-ma-plans-the-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26188","title":{"rendered":"The proposal would make Medicare Advantage (MA) plans the default"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The current administration is considering making Medicare Advantage plans the default coverage option for Medicare enrollees, rather than traditional Medicare. Approximately 69.7 million Americans are enrolled in Medicare in 2026, with 35 million, representing roughly 55 percent, enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans. Mark J. Warshawsky, Senior Fellow and Wilson H. Taylor Chair in Healthcare and Retirement Policy at The American Enterprise, asks whether this would be a step in the right direction for Americans who desire high-quality care, choice, and lower healthcare costs. Read Mr. Warshawsky\u2019s article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/articles\/medicare-advantage-by-default\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/articles\/medicare-advantage-by-default\/\"> here\u2026<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current administration is considering making Medicare Advantage plans the default coverage option for Medicare enrollees, rather than traditional Medicare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6,9],"tags":[80,238,61,62],"class_list":["post-26188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26189,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26188\/revisions\/26189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}