Trump weighs major gift to for-profit insurance indus​try: Medicare privatization

By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams
Published April 10, 2026 3:53 PM ET

The Trump administration is considering enacting a policy that would automatically funnel seniors into for-profit Medicare Advantage plans—which critics say would set Medicare on the path to full-scale privatization.

Chris Klomp, the Trump administration’s director of Medicare and deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), told STAT last month that enrolling seniors in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans by default “is something that we’re thinking through.” MA plans are funded by the federal government and run by private insurance companies such as UnitedHealthcare and Humana, both of which have been accused of improperly denying necessary care to patients and overcharging taxpayers.

The default enrollment scheme was floated in the far-right Project 2025 agenda that President Donald Trump has repeatedly tried to disavow. Currently, older Americans who have received Social Security benefits for at least four months before they turn 65 are automatically enrolled in traditional Medicare, and they can choose to enroll in an MA plan as an alternative.

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Now happening..............they can try, but it will not happen.................right now over 26 million people have no health insurance and there is a current maga congress that just threw people off health coverage and if you think they will not do it with this BS................come out from under your rock............

https://www.kff.org/uninsured/key-facts-about-the-uninsured-population/