Why Can't All Americans Benefit from Medicare-Negotiated Pricing?

Just finished The Price We Pay by Marty Makary. The sections on insanely inflated & opaque medical pricing kept comparing wild markups over the Medicare-negotiated price for the same vendor+service. Why can't people under 65 / not on Medicare get the benefit of those price negotiations our government has already done? I'm not asking for "Medicare for all" - just the prices. Medicare could negotiate for all Americans (which would give them even more negotiating power), and although vendors would hate it, feels like that's a thing a government could force on them.

https://ift.tt/3aCuyRd Submitted March 25, 2025 at 04:15AM by mister-paul https://ift.tt/duWsNnx