This is true. A friend here in Ohio inquired about getting treatment at Mayo Clinic. She has Medicare Advantage. She was told “sorry, your insurance is no good here.”
Exactly, if you like to be controlled, limited doctor choices, and pay more, you will love the advantage (for the insurance companies) plan…
I never seriously considered it after I saw how the game was played.
And she just figured that out? Neither will Sloan Kettering. You take advantage planif you are cheap or have no other options. And I have wealthy cheap friends who have Advantage. Once my husband started talking about switching to save money and I told him he was crazy to consider it. He has chronic medical issues.
I have such a plan (through Blue Cross) and I can see any doctor...or go to any hospital...that takes Medicare. That means 98% of doctors...and hospitals. That’s one of the main reasons I took the plan. If I develop some rare cancer I want to be able to go to Baltimore...or San Francisco...or Ottumwa,Iowa to see *the* world expert on that cancer.