Medicare, Modernization and FEHBP
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Most capitated programs have not generated innovative ways to organize care, but have instead concentrated on enrolling healthy beneficiaries and using crude controls on service use. Competition can lead to a number of problems for beneficiaries, including instability in the care they receive. Choice of plans will not offer many advantages for beneficiaries, particularly since it is important to limit risk selection through standardized benefits. Competition and choice could make it difficult to protect the social insurance nature of the program.
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