CMS Chief Says ‘Medicare for All’ Too Good to Be True

Administrator Seema Verma calls it 'Obamacare on steroids'

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma speaks at the Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington on Oct. 1, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

WASHINGTON—“Medicare for All” might sound too good to be true, which means it probably is, says Seema Verma, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

“As head of the agency that serves over 58 million Medicare beneficiaries, I deal first-hand with the challenges of government-run health care,” she wrote in a Nov. 2 blog post. “The answer to the skyrocketing cost curve is not greater government intervention, leading to the evisceration of the private insurance marketplace, but just the opposite: increase choices, unleash private competition, innovation, and lighten regulations on plans, doctors and providers.”