"The results are in: America’s seniors today enjoy a stronger program that offers more and better benefits at lower costs," Seema Verma writes

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** Opinion: Trump Has Lowered Costs and Increased Medicare Options by Favoring Market Competition
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“For almost four years, President Donald Trump has promoted reforms to Medicare that favor market competition over Washington meddling,” Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma writes in the Houston Chronicle.

“The results are in: America’s seniors today enjoy a stronger program that offers more and better benefits at lower costs . . . Combined, beneficiaries have saved approximately $3.4 billion in Medicare Advantage and Part D premium costs since 2017.”

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