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#masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }What to WatchBest Movies on NetflixBest of Disney PlusClassic Holiday MoviesHoliday TVBest Netflix DocumentariesAdvertisementContinue reading the main storyOpinionSupported byContinue reading the main storylettersWorking to Improve Medicare and MedicaidThe agency’s administrator says it is striving for innovative health care, not defending the status quo. Also: A hint of voter fraud; reaction to Pope Francis; the survival of movie theaters.Dec. 2, 2020, 1:23 p.m. ETMore from our inbox:Election Fraud? Where’s the Evidence?Pope Francis Shows Us the WayWill Movie Theaters Survive?Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, with President Trump last month.Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York TimesTo the Editor:Re “Science Under Assault at Medicare and Medicaid,” by Peter B. Bach (Op-Ed, Dec. 2):Everything we do at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services serves one goal: to dismantle a status quo that thwarts innovative, high-quality health care.Seniors wait years for Medicare access to technologies approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Our proposed rule will give seniors immediate access to safe devices while still incentivizing innovators to gather data supporting permanent coverage.Likewise, we’ve fought the special interests that have long dictated the prices Americans pay for drugs. Medicare financially rewards providers who prescribe the highest cost drugs, often at seniors’ expense. We are fixing this.And for many states, work incentives offer a pathway to sustainable coverage for adults on Medicaid. Supporters of the status quo often cite a flawed study to support their predetermined beliefs, ignoring that it was based on one state’s early experience with a program operational for only a few months. Innovative ideas to lift Americans from poverty deserve to be fully evaluated.Fighting for change is harder than defending the status quo, but Americans deserve nothing less.Seema VermaWashingtonThe writer is administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.Election Fraud? Where’s the Evidence? Credit…Al Drago for The New York TimesTo the Editor:Re “In Blow to Trump, Barr Sees No Basis for Fraud Claims” (front page, Dec. 2):Attorney General William Barr acknowledged that the Justice Department had found no voter fraud “on a scale that could have effected a different outcome.”Has the Justice Department found any fraud anywhere in the United States during the 2020 presidential election? If so, I (and the American public) would sure like to see some evidence of fraud.For Mr. Barr even to hint at any voter fraud, without producing the evidence, is merely another example of his slavish support of his boss.Daniel FinkBeverly Hills, Calif.Pope Francis Shows Us the Way   Credit…Illustration by Najeebah Al-Ghadban; photographs by Getty ImagesTo the Editor:Re “A Crisis Reveals What Is in Our Hearts” (Sunday Review, Nov. 29):The words Pope Francis wrote were so touching and profound. They made me realize how as a country we have to put aside political parties and pick what is best from each party. We have to look at the world differently — at people differently — and come to a place where we can look at people in a more inclusive way.We need to give back and we have to move forward with love in our hearts and gratitude. We have to be thankful and set aside judgment and anger. Only in doing that will we as individuals and as a country survive in the way God intended.Blanche O’ConnellGreenwich, Conn.Will Movie Theaters Survive?  Credit…Philip Cheung for The New York TimesTo the Editor:Re “Hollywood’s End, the Sequel,” by Brooks Barnes (Sunday Business, Nov. 29):Once again, we get a premonition of movie theaters’ imminent demise. Coincidentally, I read Mr. Barnes’s piece just after seeing the wonderful new film “Mank” at my neighborhood art house, the Belcourt Theater, in Nashville. As the director Ava DuVernay says in the article, “Theaters aren’t going anywhere, at least not all of them.” I sure hope she’s right.These cultural pillars — whether they’re showing the latest blockbusters or creative programming (“Mank” alongside “Citizen Kane,” which the Belcourt presented) — enrich modern life. Once a vaccine is widely available, we could all benefit from a night out at the movies.Trent HannerNashvilleAdvertisementContinue reading the main story More