Save Medicare - NO Privatization

Stop privatization - under ANY name

The Trump "Direct Contracting" Medicare privatization program, which lets Wall Street profiteers grab Medicare dollars, has new life under a new name:  “ACO REACH.” Changing the name does not change that this is backdoor privatization of Medicare.

Like the falsely named "Medicare Advantage" it's a way for private companies to profit by reducing care.

Just like it’s evil twin, Direct Contracting, the proposed REACH program would:

  • Pay third-party middlemen a flat fee to "manage" seniors' health, allowing them to keep up to 40% of what they don’t spend on health care as profit and overhead.
  • Automatically enroll Traditional Medicare beneficiaries into REACH without their full understanding or consent - including many union retirees.
  • Require beneficiaries to change primary care providers to opt out of the program.
  • Allow virtually any type of company to be a REACH middleman, including those owned by commercial insurers and private equity investors, as well as every company currently in the Direct Contracting program.
Wall Street is betting on Medicare privatization as their next big score, and it will take a movement to stop them.

Send your letter to President Biden and Health and Human Services Secretary Becerra,