On April 26, 2024, Paragon President Brian Blase was quoted in Inside Health Policy.
From the article:
Paragon President and Founder Brian Blase tells Inside Health Policy Congress also should let the enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits expire at the end of next year, a contrasting with President Joe Biden, Democratic lawmakers, and numerous outside interests, who want those credits permanently extended.
“Rising federal debt, interest rates, and inflation represent clear and growing problems for Americans,” Blase told IHP after the event. “The number one fiscal threat is the unsustainable spending trajectory of federal health programs.”
Paragon is pushing four key reforms to reduce the costs pressures from the programs, Blase says: “1. stop overpaying hospitals by pursuing site-neutral payments in Medicare; 2. increase efficiencies in Medicare Advantage payments as laid out in Paragon’s proposal; 3. let the enhanced ACA subsidies to health insurers expire after 2025; and 4. stop discriminating against traditional Medicaid enrollees (low-income kids, pregnant women, and people with disabilities) by lowering the federal subsidy rate for ACA able-bodied, working-age expansion enrollees to the rate paid for traditional enrollees.”
