One of the significant reforms in the health-care law was to put private Medicare plans on a more equal footing with the traditional government program. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act altered the payment structure in which the private plans, known as Medicare Advantage, were essentially overpaid in comparison to the traditional fee-for-service plan, receiving about $114 for every $100 spent on traditional Medicare. With about a quarter of Medicare beneficiaries now enrolled in private plans, the change was projected to save a significant amount of money: $145 billion over nine years.

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