If you choose a Medicare Advantage plan, you're helping to kill true Medicare [View all]

[wackadoo wabbit]

I know, I know. This sounds like complete hyperbole. But it's actually true.

Medicare Advantage was devised as a way of privatizing Medicare. Medicare Advantage is not true Medicare; it's actually private health insurance.

Newt Gingrich once said about original Medicare, "“We believe it’s going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it — voluntarily.”

Medicare Advantage plans were devised to enable that to happen.

Here, don't take my word for it:

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/09/08/medicare-advantage-profit-scam-time-end-it

https://medicareadvocacy.org/medicare-is-being-privatized-where-is-the-outcry/

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/14/1977397/-Beyond-the-Medicare-Advantage-Scam

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesfinancecouncil/2021/02/24/why-are-medicare-advantage-plans-so-heavily-advertised/

https://www.statnews.com/2019/04/03/medicare-advantage-nudging-aside-old-medicare/ (read to the end)

If you're currently on a Medicare Advantage plan, you can switch back to original Medicare during the open enrollment period.