Medicare advantage plans are provided by private insurance companies. They are not Medicare, and they are not under the Medicare umbrella.
Not true. Medicare Adv plans are ADMINISTERED by private outfits. Funding is provided entirely by federal govt.
“Medicare advantage plans are provided by private insurance companies.”
So is my traditional Medicare Part G plan (administered by very private company called Cygna).
The premiums are velcroed to the Medicare monthly premium which for Social Security Benefit recipients are ratcheted up— and thus ratcheting up the advantage plan premiums. This is insidious and statutorily wrong. It must be challenged, and Social Security must NO LONGER be funding medicare. It was Billy Cokenose Clinton who came up with that and Speaker Rostenkowski (remember the Seniors chasing that a@@hole down the road?-Beautiful. And all the while he was stealing money from the House Post Office).