They yse very deceptive means to get people to switch from gov Medicare to privatized Medicare.

see how hard it will be for them to switch back to regular medicare!

Medicare there will be some unable to pay rent or buy enough groceries. My neighbor was living on $1K/ month SS. Had an Advantage Plan. She passed away few years ago. Now put her on Medicare to the tune of roughly $400/mo cost and she can’t make ends meet.

people will continue to select Medicare Advantage, even if they have to give up access to some doctors and facilities.

They do not have to pay the additional costs of buying a supplemental policy.

Medicare Advantage only advantages the corporations that are stealing Medicare funds
and offering so so service at best. It is a corporate ripoff and and end run by Republicans
to destroy real Medicare.

How ludicrous that Medicare is become a for-profit operation being sold on the stock market. It was
intended to be a way to support retired workers as their medical costs increase

Now the beneficiaries are just the commodities that are bought and sold on the open markets while
the customers are the CEO's and the stockholders.

Would be eligible for Medicaid at no cost. There certainly wouldn’t be a $400 cost. Sounds like someone was given bad advice to lure them into an Advantage plan.

they'd do something to make the original program better/affordable for beneficiaries.

There are lots of retired/semiretired people who cannot pay an extra $200+ a month for a supplement and drug plan, can't bypass a quarterly food allowance, can't bypass a few hundred to several thousand dollars for dental coverage, etc.

We ought to pressure Congress to improve original Medicare or keep funding the extra benefits for Medicare Advantage.

I really don't give a darn if a private insurance company gets a few extra percent in profits if they are providing plans that poor people can afford. Most can't afford original Medicare and the necessary supplement and drug plan, while forgoing dental and vision coverage (even if limited).

have to do with the exorbitant drug prices and that is why the phase in of negotiated drug prices, which will gradually bring the costs down for the one sector of Medicare that keeps the premiums high.

it won’t change things much. And the odds of cutting it in half are small. All for it, but not a game changer.

At least for all of us on drug plans, the coverage gap decreases dramatically in 2025.

It took them forever to approve coverage of continuous glucose monitors for diabetics, saying that they were no more effective than pricking our finger 4-6 times a day. They finally pulled their head out of their ass before my dad turned 65, but I was worried about him for a while.

I'd be perfectly fine if people 65+ were allowed to enroll in ACA plans with the standard subsidy instead of Medicare. I also understand some people like Medicare and so I wouldn't object to Medicare being offered to everybody as a public option on the ACA exchanges.