{"id":3611,"date":"2016-07-19T10:50:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T14:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3611"},"modified":"2016-07-19T10:50:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T14:50:39","slug":"turning-medicare-into-a-premium-support-system-frequently-asked-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3611","title":{"rendered":"Turning Medicare Into a Premium Support System: Frequently Asked Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Gretchen Jacobson and Tricia Neuman for Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)<\/p>\n<p>Premium support is a general term used to describe an approach to reform Medicare that aims to reduce the growth in Medicare spending by increasing competition among health plans and providing a stronger incentive for beneficiaries to be cost-conscious in their plan selection.\u00a0 On June 22, 2016, the House Republicans included in their health care reform plan a proposal to gradually transform Medicare into a system of premium supports, building on proposals of the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, when he was Chair of the House Committee on Budget, as well as the proposals of many other policymakers.<a id=\"endnote_link_193666-1\" class=\"footnote-link\" title=\"Kaiser Family Foundation. Comparison of Medicare Premium Support Proposals. July 2012. Available at: http:\/\/kff.org\/medicare\/issue-brief\/comparison-of-medicare-premium-support-proposals\/\" href=\"http:\/\/kff.org\/medicare\/issue-brief\/turning-medicare-into-a-premium-support-system-frequently-asked-questions\/view\/footnotes\/#footnote-193666-1\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kff.org\/medicare\/issue-brief\/turning-medicare-into-a-premium-support-system-frequently-asked-questions\/?utm_campaign=KFF-2016-July-Medicare-FAQs-Premium-Support&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=31794444&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8EsA397dSPe4V9q-JnIzCgXryR67Z1-Ph0Ifg1Ao6v55vH2X0Ebm5lukpN9jnHXYmknqv7hGVbd0svbrR4ihoueCL0dw&amp;_hsmi=31794444\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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