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Traildogbob

(13,285 posts)
22. It's not fucking free
Sat Oct 22, 2022, 08:49 AM
Oct 2022

When you sign up they take your Medicare premium out of your SS. If you believe these for profit private ins. Greedy assholes ate gonna give you free Ins, including dental and eye and low meds plus hearing aids, you believe Fox is 100 percent honest. They spend only 60 percent from premiums on patient care, the other is on Joe Namath and JJ Walker style bullshit adds. Every other add. And the cost of those non stop glossy expensive mail “Booklets”. Medicare has zero advertising costs. No TV. 95 percent of premiums is on patient care. Advantage is not just a gap coverage. It takes away Medicare. It’s hell to get out of after you get screed. It’s a Bush era GQP scam to destroy Medicare and fully privatize all health care. They are over 50 percent there. So when they take over watch the hell they bring on us.
I got scammed into it. My VA care files Ins claims with my insurance and only takes what insurance pays. After 3 years, VA notified me all my care would need to be reevaluated if I did not end Advantage. They were not covering ANY care. Took a year to switch back.
Hearing aids are non Over the counter, thank you Joe.
I thing is Free, especially health care. And they do not put money back into your SS. Fir fucks sake, anybody that believes this scam believes trump would never lie, and he did do much good.
Not enough time to write all the scamming it has done to my entire state health care here. They cover just enough people to hook us into the scam. When they get us all and end Medicare, the same scammers will come to privatize SS. And take it all.
Free health care, free dental, free eye, free hearing cheap as hell meds. From Corp medical companies. Actually give you SS money back. Ya see why people buy GQP and Fox bullshit. Jeeeebus. No trillion dollar corp is gonna give you free stuff.
And all those Medicare premiums are paying for relentless advertising on TV and mail, to destroy fucking Medicare. What a brilliant damn scam. Money intended to care for Medicare patients. 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰

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A step in the right direction to saving Medicare. gab13by13 Oct 2022 #1
Yup! SheltieLover Oct 2022 #4
Medi gap plans are expensive Maine Abu El Banat Oct 2022 #11
Rule: There is NO free lunch ashredux Oct 2022 #13
Exactly. Cost of all the benefits above, plus the slick TV ads, plus profit.... paleotn Oct 2022 #23
This message was self-deleted by its author ashredux Oct 2022 #14
👍👍👍 Karma13612 Oct 2022 #19
Post removed Post removed Oct 2022 #20
in a perfect world, no one would Skittles Oct 2022 #2
I agree, Skittles! SheltieLover Oct 2022 #6
greetings! Skittles Oct 2022 #7
Congrats on your new job! SheltieLover Oct 2022 #46
Don't need a perfect world, just a sufficient Democratic majority Hortensis Oct 2022 #32
If we try to get rid of the advantage plans, we will lose the next election there are likely more Demsrule86 Oct 2022 #36
Yes, have to oversee MA and protect their customers while Hortensis Oct 2022 #43
Pisses me off these private insurance companies are called Medicare! Emile Oct 2022 #3
I couldn't agree more! SheltieLover Oct 2022 #5
This always annoys me. I have an Advantage plan because it was what I could afford... Demsrule86 Oct 2022 #38
Looks like Mayo is in contract negotiations with UHC, et al unc70 Oct 2022 #8
I don't believe this has anything to do with that. Most Medicare Advantage plans had restrictions JohnSJ Oct 2022 #12
Medicare Adantage offers PPO where you can go out of network. Demsrule86 Oct 2022 #39
My understanding is that even MA PPO's still operate under a closed provider network, which limit JohnSJ Oct 2022 #42
Could Mayo be trying to channel patients to it's own medicare advantage plan? nt mitch96 Oct 2022 #21
No. There is no such thing. Hortensis Oct 2022 #34
👍 tnx..nt mitch96 Oct 2022 #51
People need to read the fine print in those fake Medicare plans. gab13by13 Oct 2022 #9
Absolutely! SheltieLover Oct 2022 #10
Republican Advantage Plans are designed to do away with Medicare Emile Oct 2022 #15
Absolutely! SheltieLover Oct 2022 #16
It's not fucking free Traildogbob Oct 2022 #22
Medicare is deducted from your SS no matter if you go with straight Karma13612 Oct 2022 #26
Exactly Traildogbob Oct 2022 #33
Advantage plans often have give back plans where they give all or part of Part B back... Also, Demsrule86 Oct 2022 #40
I'll stay away from Karma13612 Oct 2022 #17
The "bad news" here is grifting Advantage plans SheltieLover Oct 2022 #18
My close friend is a public health researcher. I asked her once mahina Oct 2022 #29
Here ya go... Karma13612 Oct 2022 #31
Guess what, you will find "alarming stories" about any of the top rated medical facilities. JohnSJ Oct 2022 #44
See the link Karma13612 Oct 2022 #50
I saw it. I still stand by my comment JohnSJ Oct 2022 #52
Zero sum game folks. The slick TV ads. The profit. Someone has to pay for all that. paleotn Oct 2022 #24
Medicare Advantage means that profit-driven insurance executives make your medical decisions Lonestarblue Oct 2022 #25
Late stage capitalism at its best RocRizzo55 Oct 2022 #27
We desperately need universal healthcare. area51 Oct 2022 #28
The husband chose AARP United Healthcare Advantage plan because he THOUGHT being Ziggysmom Oct 2022 #30
👏👏👏👏👏 Traildogbob Oct 2022 #37
Medicare Advantage plans have MOOPs and sometimes include vision and dental gulliver Oct 2022 #35
"Medicare Advantage plans have been under increasing scrutiny and investigation Hortensis Oct 2022 #41
HI! IT'S ME AGAIN...... Hotler Oct 2022 #45
We are happy with our zero premium advantage plans. Thunderbeast Oct 2022 #47
👍👍👍 Karma13612 Oct 2022 #53
I have original Medicare and it has been great. Most people I know are opting for an Advantage plan LiberalBrooke Oct 2022 #48
Glad you were able to get the care you needed from the best docs! SheltieLover Oct 2022 #49
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