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Cleita

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10. Advantage programs, which privatize a single payer system, suck.
Fri Aug 8, 2014, 02:12 PM
Aug 2014

The right Congress can change it and frankly my personal experience with an advantage program cost my husband and me $10,000 because the insurance company could deny us coverage traditional Medicare did cover eventually. My husband was on Medicare for thirteen years and I have been on it for ten. What sucks is the privatized supplemental insurance and pill program. That needs to change as it's costing more than it should for old people on SS. The right Congress can do it and it will save money. The poor, poor insurance companies will be left out in the cold, but I'm sure they will find other ways of preying on victims with their parasite product.

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Truthfully, traditional Medicare ain't treating patients well. Co-pays, no out-of-pocket cap, Hoyt Aug 2014 #1
So what do Medicare Advantage plans do to deserve getting paid an extra 14% eridani Aug 2014 #2
donate bribes...errr campaign contributions to dems and repubs alike who allow this? nt msongs Aug 2014 #3
I'm shocked! SHOCKED!!! that you would say such a cruel thing! eridani Aug 2014 #4
You don't think your doctor, hospital, chiropractor, etc., is ontributing either directly and/or Hoyt Aug 2014 #6
Most importantly, they cap the out-of-pocket costs beneficiaries are subject to. Next, they provide Hoyt Aug 2014 #5
Lucky you if you can get Kaiser because most providers won't take advantage plans. Cleita Aug 2014 #8
How do you determine who is a good doc -- they have a pretty office, drive a nice car, have certain Hoyt Aug 2014 #12
I'm all for stopping it and using the money to fully fund Medicare so we old farts don't Cleita Aug 2014 #7
Problem is, the government isn't going to take that money and "fully fund Medicare." Hoyt Aug 2014 #9
Advantage programs, which privatize a single payer system, suck. Cleita Aug 2014 #10
The "right Congress" can do a lot of things. But, "right Congress" ain't close despite our efforts. Hoyt Aug 2014 #11
If you have to travel interstate like my DH and I did, the MA's will mostly not Cleita Aug 2014 #16
Very sorry you had such a bad experience. You can have it with traditional Medicare too. Hoyt Aug 2014 #17
I really can't afford it because I'm only on SS but I do without other Cleita Aug 2014 #18
+1! SammyWinstonJack Aug 2014 #13
The real reason for Medicare Advantage meow2u3 Aug 2014 #14
Yeah, those 15.5 million that choose it year-after-year are all suckers. Hoyt Aug 2014 #15
Yes, they are. With health care you don't find out that you are screwn until eridani Aug 2014 #19
Get expensively sick on traditional Medicare and you better have an expensive supplemental policy. Hoyt Aug 2014 #20
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