Christopher Shays: “one of the options will be that we will allow private care plans to offer to seniors a whole host of different services.…”

“one of the options will be that we will allow private care plans to offer to seniors a whole host of different services. They may offer eye care or dental care, they may give a rebate on the copayment or the deductible, they may give a rebate on the premium. They may even pay, because in some areas the cost of health care is so much less than we actually pay in Medicare, they may actually be able to pay almost all of the Medigap, pay all or part of the Medigap, which a lot of seniors pay today, and they will still make money off the plan. They will be able to give them annual checkups, which some seniors do not get now. Now, if a senior does not like it, they get into the private care and they do not like it, they have 24 months, each and every month, 2 years in each and every month, to get back to their fee-for-service plan. So we do not increase copayments, we do not increase the deductible, we do not increase the premium, we give seniors choice.”