This Private Healthcare SCAM is Stealing Your Tax Dollars - Here's How to Stop Them - Thom Hartmann

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Our taxes are supposed to go to our schools, our roads, and firefighters… but a private health insurance scam is taking millions of your dollars so fat-cat CEOS can buy yachts… - Aired on 02/26/2024.

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1. medicare DISadvantage

I know people are sucked into medicare advantage because you get dental, hearing etc. but I have called Tom on this and he is right about advantage options. Just wish people would research the cons of advantage options. Agents that sign you up get about $700 per person. As long as people keep enrolling in privatized Medicare, we will lose.

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2. Tom Hartmann has been pointing this out for years, using the "Medicare" name tends to fool people

I don't know how they still get away with it, they're hawking private insurance which depends on where you live, Medicare is a national program. And the commercials for this private insurance, lying that it's just part of Medicare, continue to be broadcast in every other commercial break.

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