Shortly after announcing plans to hike payments to private insurance plans in Medicare Advantage, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services proposed cutting those made to the 18 percent of Medicare Advantage plans sponsored by employers and unions.

Roughly 2.7 million retirees are enrolled in employer or union-sponsored MA plans, according to an analysis by Avalere.

As is increasingly the case with many benefits, they are more common among public sector employers than in the private sector.

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