is the best. My wife has cancer. IF we were on medicare advantage i am sure she would be dead and I would be bankrupt.

The private insurers would rather be taken to court by those of us with rare cancers, knowing we'll die before our cases are heard/ajudicated.

Not only are Trump's nominees on the wrong side of morality, they're about as smart as a box of rocks.

Mind the gap!

I can see him expanding the program to include everyone 65 and above or maybe 67 since that’s the new retirement age.

Unreal

He will also be involved in the elimination of the ACA and the insurance reform section of that law as well. No matter your political affiliation, taking away denial because of preexisting conditions will be incredibly painful for everyone. We fucking can’t go back. So many folks will be put into medical bankruptcy and be assigned to an early grave. This has to be fought against, people have to rise up to keep this from happening. But when we take to the streets in protest will we be met the new hammer of the felon’s administration, our own military? Looks like it might be the plan. Fuck them for voting for this.

And original Medicare is primarily administered by subsidiaries of private insurance companies.

Won’t take much to privatize it more.

MA plans were the beginning of the privatization scheme. Now everyone will be corralled into them and we’re back to square one with private insurance companies holding us hostage. Getting rid of preexisting conditions will be final nail in the coffin. Premature deaths and crippling medical debt here we come.

for their parents's and grandparent's healthcare. GOPers are too greedy to do that. Not to mention, lots of folks -- including doctors, hospitals, insurers, etc. -- make good money off it. They will lobby and likely beat any real attempt to change things materially.

And they’ll be giving all the tax dollars to the vultures in the medical insurance industry.

I feel healthier already!

Link to tweet

And Putin is probably dictating these choices to Trump. He’s destroying our country without firing a single shot.

A big middle finger to Oprah Winfrey for pushing this shitbag's snake oil.

If you have Medicare Advantage coverage you like, that's good. I am commenting only on MY experiences.

My finances nearly collapsed when my husband and I paid for my mother-in-law's medication for 2 months between when she was covered by Humana Medicare Advantage in Virginia and when we got her signed up for Medicare + Medigap policy in Indiana.

Humana tracks when mail to their clients bounces back. They call anyone listed in the client's file to determine whether the person has moved out of their "region." They caught my brother-in-law on the phone within TWO DAYS of her leaving Virginia, and he (stupidly) told them she had moved.

Her policy said Humana had to be informed within 30 days of the move, which would have given us adequate time to set up another policy in Indiana so she would never be without coverage. As soon as Humana got off the phone with my brother-in-law, they FUCKING CUT HER OFF ENTIRELY. Medicare didn't automatically cover her after Humana dumped her. We had to file paperwork, which we would have done quickly after moving her to Indiana, but she had NO insurance coverage for weeks. NONE. We paid for her VERY expensive medications for two months, and if she had had an emergency that sent her to the hospital, we would have wound up paying for *everything*.

Fast forward three years: At the end of her life, when she had radiation therapy to reduce the size of tumors in her lungs - so she could breathe and swallow until she died of lung cancer - the cost was at least a million $$, and there were other expenses. I had purchased a Medigap policy that covered everything Medicare approved, and Medicare approved every expense. I *never* saw a bill.

Republicans created Medicare Advantage for the SOLE purpose of boosting profits for the healthcare industry. When trying to present and pass the bill, they kept referring to their elderly parents, saying that the Advantage plans were great, their parents would be on them and they would never allow their parents to be left without the very best care.

In response to the lying liars of the Republican party, a Democrat who spoke in opposition to the plan said that while it was clear they cared about THEIR parents, they obviously DID NOT CARE about ANYONE ELSE's parents.

The fact that nearly half of seniors have moved from Medicare to Advantage is the result of profit-motivated damn lies, lies, lies, and manipulation. Medicare Advantage is an abomination; it is entirely immoral.

If Medicare Advantage plans weren't making BILLIONS of dollars in profit by sucking clients' money out of the pool that should be reserved for client healthcare, they wouldn't be paying to air ads during every fucking commercial break from August to December.

And now, if the incoming administration does what they promised to do, my husband and I are going to be CHEATED out of having Medicare. The only reason the incoming administration will push to privatize Medicare and the VA is to make themselves $$$$$$ - filthy lucre - and provide only enough "care" that people don't leave them by the millions.

I live in a red shithole state in a (currently) red shithole nation. I am enraged. Their policies will destroy any hope I have of ever retiring after paying taxes for over 40 years. I am keenly aware that other lives are in danger of being destroyed sooner and more painfully than mine.

did The Onion buy DU?

get a fuckin circus