Posted on 04/11/2024 7:03:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Joe Biden's re-election campaign is repeating the naked lie, over and over again, that President Trump wants to cut elderly people's Social Security and Medicare.
Some of those elderly voters believe him, as recent polling has shown.
But he's already played Mr. Slasher on Medicare Advantage, the immensely popular supplemental health insurance program favored by more than half of seniors, and he plans to cut it more. Democrats hate this program because it allows its buyers choice in what kind of coverage they would like to have on their policies.
According to an important op-ed on RedState from the Heartland Institute:
In fact, Biden didn’t merely propose Medicare Advantage (MA) reforms a dozen years in the future. He cut rates from a projected 2.44 percent to 2.33 percent, despite industry predictions of a 4 to 6 percent growth rate. Medicare Advantage is often targeted by single-payer advocates because it offers choices to consumers. Rather than the one-size-fits-all Soviet model of health care favored by liberals, MA allows seniors to choose what they want included in their health care coverage. So, for Biden’s single-payer base, this cut is a good thing. But what about the seniors in Arizona, Florida, Nevada, and Wisconsin?
That raises the rates seniors shell out by nearly $400 a year, and that's seniors on fixed incomes. And he's already done it, which puts paid to the lie that Trump wants to cut Medicare and Social Security. He's already doing it himself, not for illegals, but for those who have paid taxes all their lives.
Of all the things to cut in his monster bloated budgets, he chose to cut this, sneaking it into his budget and publicizing it.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
If you like your Medicare Advantage, you can keep your Medicare Advantage.
Just like your cadillac health insurance plan, of years ago.
Oh, wait ....
Unfortunately, the companies offering Medicare Advantage have been found out to be primarily interested in making large profits while providing minimal services.
I have a Medicare Advantage plan but it’s through the retiree insurance by P&G. It’s a good plan. I can see any doctor that takes it without worrying about Networks. It’s not the government marketplace Medicare Advantage.
Sorry, I don’t put much stock in anything published by NPR. They are nothing but left-wing propagandists.
I am over 65, so as age 65 approached I was buried by the various brochures. And yes, I had to read them all. Mostly out of disbelief.
I could not believe it could be this complex.
When your time comes, you will similarly be buried. The best advice is just recognize that the people you might talk to are experts and are going to know much more about it than you ever will. That’s just the way it is. It’s too complex for you to have a chance.
BOTTOM LINE. It’s monumentally stupid. 65+ healthcare should be 100% Medicare. Not 80%. It is that remaining 20% that generates all these brochures and analyses and complexity. A lousy 20% of the whole thing does this.
No, you have no choices. It’s not a politics or ideology thing. It is Monumentally Stupid. None of it would exist if Medicare covered 100% rather than 80%. You get no benefit from having to obsess over 20%.
You don’t understand. Joe wants to protect you from your Medicare Advantage program by taking it away from you so you can enjoy the benefits of the New Improved Social Score Medical Program. This plan includes enhanced benefits for the poor, people of color, criminals, migrants and of course our favorites the LGBQT+ crowd. IF there are any doctors, rooms or staff available for you, enjoy!
“Of all the things to cut in his monster bloated budgets, he chose to cut this, sneaking it into his budget and publicizing it.”
This is not Biden... this is Obama... tweaking his legacy disaster called Obamacare. It has Obama’s stench all over it.
Medicare Advantage is simply Medicare contracted to private insurance companies and is riddled with fraud and deceitful ads taking advantage of seniors.
They already try to control what care we get through Medicare. It’s a little harder with a private supplemental plan.
I recently retired and was overwhelmed by the arguments surrounding this or that plan. The YouTube videos presented numerous hypotheticals that manipulate the outcome to favor the plan being promoted. Which plan is most beneficial depends on your health care needs in the future. All you have to know is what’s going to happen in the future. It’s like buying stock or lottery tickets.
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“BOTTOM LINE. It’s monumentally stupid. 65+ healthcare should be 100% Medicare.”
Why? Cuz you get it?
And don’t claim you pay for it now, or paid for it when you were working. Goobermint pays most of Medicare. It’s Welfare for Seniors. Call it what it is.
Why should Medicare cover the wealthiest quintile 100%?
Before you get your knickers in a twist, I’m for Goobermint paid preventive care for everybody. Keep people healthy and medical costs go down.
Lots of ways to deliver preventative, stay healthy care. Most don’t realize that Medicare only pays when you already need care. When you’re sick.
The scam is to claim any kind of covered cause for the visit. “Oh, my back hurts” gets a covered office visit.
But Annual Physicals, wellness care, and other staying healthy care like yoga/cardio/exercise/swim programs are NOT covered. And don’t go and claim they are.
Close the phookin border, Drill Baby Drill, Sell it here/Make it here would go a long way towards “a more perfect union”.
I’m for Goobermint paid preventive care for everybody. Keep people healthy and medical costs go down.
then come the government mandates..
Don’t smoke
don’t do drugs
can’t to that sport its not safe
oh can’t drive that car, poor safety score
lets get the government OUT of medicine not deeper in to it.
Stupid criminals are usually caught.
Smart criminals transition into politicians.
Brilliant criminals start insurance companies.
Puppet politicians try to muscle in on the profits of insurance companies.
stay away from Advantage plans! get Supplemental...
Medicare Advantage can’t survive. It is structurally unsound.
Advantage plans are great until they’re not so great. We don’t even have them in Alaska. Even if I lived in an area where they are available I wouldn’t waste my time with them.
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