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Medicare Is Better At Controlling Costs Than Private Insurers | Diane Archer has a good piece in Health Affairs explaining that Medicare is much better at controlling health care costs than private insures, despite the GOP’s ongoing efforts to privatize the program. The bottom line is this: “If spending on Medicare rose at the same rate as private insurance premiums during that period, Medicare would have cost an additional $114 billion (or 31.7 percent).”