“Six states — New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, and Washington — will begin using the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model to perform prior authorization evaluations, CMS announced in a Federal Register notice. This will apply to 17 services that CMS says ‘are vulnerable to fraud, waste and abuse.’”
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/medicare/prior-authorization-coming-to-traditional-medicare
Another video on Medicare
The Differences are Bigger Than You Think | Medicare Advantage vs Supplement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOP76hMPiDs
And the democrats want to give FREE healthcare to illegals!!!!!
There are no words for me to express how I feel about that.
As a former agent Medicare Advantage is inferior to Medicare + Supplement G F or high deductible F. Looks good up front but falls apart the longer your in.
We got notice this past that our Part D company is existing the business. We were paying $22/month for each of us. We are searching for a replacement plan and the best we can find so far is $400/month for each of us!
That’s a jump from $264/year to over $5,300/year — in ONE hit.
Unfreaking believable.
He advises people with MA’s to get a cancer plan - but you must apply before the age of 72. That leaves me out.
Now the "joy" of finding another plan. Wondering if I should just go back to traditional medicare...add a supplemental.
...but know that is probably going to be a lot more expensive.
Medicare Advantage has always been a GWB scam to direct additional money to insurance companies without requiring itemized services for them.
It gets sold to old folks with the “no premiums” pitch, but then they find it won’t cover some of their essential medical needs (such as back surgery).
Will review.
For some reason our Aetna program is not going away. Even if it was they have another Aetna program you can switch to.
“This addresses the Medicare Advantage collapse. We’re losing ours next year. What a mess this is.”
This was inevitable.
Every major Federal intervention in medical, surgical, and nursing care since 1965 has required “bipartisan” majorities to pass. The result, starting with Medicare/Medicaid all the way to COVID has required “each side” to “get something”.
Who the President is, and how the breakdown in Congress is, determines which side gets more in any given year.
But the failure to choose if we will have a free market system or socialized medicine, and the imposition of huge programs spending vast sums of money that all have “a bit of both for Members to take home” has brought not just Medicare Advantage (a particularly badly-intentioned example of what I am talking about) but the whole system to the brink of collapse.
The next five years are going to bring changes that most Americans are unprepared for and will find, frankly, unbelievable as the whole thing falls apart.