AMA Offers Plan to Save Medicare

The American Medical Assn. laid out its plan to help fix Medicare and urged the government to solve the program’s financial troubles “once and for all” within the next 12 months. “Protect Medicare for our patients. Save it for our kids. And do it now,” without first appointing a time-consuming bipartisan study commission, said AMA board chairwoman Nancy W. Dickey. Under the AMA’s plan, enrollees would receive a government-funded voucher that would enable them to buy private health insurance and allow them to leave the traditional fee-for-service Medicare program.