Stop Medicare Funding for Mediocre Care Plans, Govt Audit Body Tells Obama

The Obama administration has been asked by a government auditing body to cancel controversial subsidies to the Medicare health insurance programme.

This was reported in healthcare-today.co.uk.

The auditing body, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a non-partisan body, said that many of these Medicare programmes on which funds were being splurged, were mediocre care plans.

It called for the cancellation of US$8.3 billion in �bonuses' in a report released on Monday. The GAO report explained that much of the money has been siphoned off to subsidized coverage plans with only an �average' rating, when the bonuses were to have been awarded for plans that delivered a high quality of care.

Republicans in Congress say that the bonus plan is a �political ploy'.



Source: Medindia