"Lie For Profit" Companies Are Trying to Take Away Your Medicare w/ Matthew Cunningham-Cook - Thom Hartmann

[Rhiannon12866]

These predatory ads use celebrity spokespersons to try to gain your trust. In reality, these companies are preying on vulnerable senior citizens. The goal? Getting them to buy privatized corporate healthcare plans disguised as Medicare. - Aired on 02/23/2024.

[burrowowl]

1. K&R

[wolfie001]

2. Medicare Parts A and B and Medicare supplemental insurance plan (if you can afford it)

Avoid Medicard Advantage plans. Also, you need to get Medicare Part D for prescriptions. Right? That's how I understand it. Any experts out there who can opine on this take?

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Thom Hartmann has been warning about "Medicare Advantage" for years since it has nothing to do with Medicare

"Medicare Advantage" is private insurance, that's why it depends on your zip code while Medicare is a national program. And he also has stories about those who were ripped off, depending on which "plan" they were stuck with. But we still see those "Medicare Advantage" ads every commercial break and calling it "Medicare," which it is not, sucks too many people in.

[wolfie001]

4. Yes!

Many stories of people with illnesses/diseases these corporate spin-offs refuse to treat. Sickening really.