Medicare Advantage is a corporate-driven scheme that restricts care, overcharges taxpayers, and traps seniors in inferior plans—undermining Traditional Medicare and enriching private insurers.
I fully understand and somewhat agree with your description of Medicare advantage concerns. I would say, however, that, as patients, we have reaped considerable benefits from the advantage plans we have both had for about three years. We save a combined $800 per month in premiums we previously paid for Part B and Part D. Co-payments are generally low and our plans have been accepted by a wide variety of providers. Between the two of us, we have had no hassle in obtaining expensive treatment including two total knee replacements, a CT scan, numerous MRIs, high intensity prostate cancer radiation, a cataract removal, a colonoscopy, and a hernia surgery. There have also been some limited vision and dental benefits. I realize this is anecdotal and that others may have less happy outcomes from other insurers, but so far we have been quite happy. We do not know how much our plan receives from the government so I cannot comment on whether the taxpayers are being overbilled.
Thanks for your thoughtful response. You are correct that if you are fortunate to be in the right place and get the right plan, your outcome like Jimmy, and Mayana’s mother I addressed is possible, But if you are in that group that denies you service (and it is a large number of people), then it matters. Healthcare should not be a crapshoot. Even scams enrich or serve some or many well. Thanks, my friend. I hope you and your wife continues to get healthy. Have a wonderful day.
I agree with you, bro. The unsuspecting are vulnerable to bad outcomes if they get into the wrong advantage plans. One would think that in the richest country on the planet citizens should have the right to good healthcare. If other countries can afford it, so can we. We need some form of "universal medicare for all."
Egberto, This summary is well written and factual. The best part is you have condensed the points well so that it is easy enough to read without getting bogged down with too much complexity. Thank you for this great work.
I fully understand and somewhat agree with your description of Medicare advantage concerns. I would say, however, that, as patients, we have reaped considerable benefits from the advantage plans we have both had for about three years. We save a combined $800 per month in premiums we previously paid for Part B and Part D. Co-payments are generally low and our plans have been accepted by a wide variety of providers. Between the two of us, we have had no hassle in obtaining expensive treatment including two total knee replacements, a CT scan, numerous MRIs, high intensity prostate cancer radiation, a cataract removal, a colonoscopy, and a hernia surgery. There have also been some limited vision and dental benefits. I realize this is anecdotal and that others may have less happy outcomes from other insurers, but so far we have been quite happy. We do not know how much our plan receives from the government so I cannot comment on whether the taxpayers are being overbilled.
Thanks for your thoughtful response. You are correct that if you are fortunate to be in the right place and get the right plan, your outcome like Jimmy, and Mayana’s mother I addressed is possible, But if you are in that group that denies you service (and it is a large number of people), then it matters. Healthcare should not be a crapshoot. Even scams enrich or serve some or many well. Thanks, my friend. I hope you and your wife continues to get healthy. Have a wonderful day.
I agree with you, bro. The unsuspecting are vulnerable to bad outcomes if they get into the wrong advantage plans. One would think that in the richest country on the planet citizens should have the right to good healthcare. If other countries can afford it, so can we. We need some form of "universal medicare for all."
Egberto, This summary is well written and factual. The best part is you have condensed the points well so that it is easy enough to read without getting bogged down with too much complexity. Thank you for this great work.
The Pretenders always, deliberately mislabel their ADVANTAGES‼️