[so glad our fingers and toes are ten each- it helps lol]
but why is the government paying advantage plans bonuses?
shouldn't medicare be as inclusive as private advantage plans?
perplexed i am~

Look at what it took to even get Congress to insert a provision to allow HHS/CMS to negotiate prices for Medicare-eligible drugs.

Good luck with getting much more than that as a change until the GOP stops thinking of "people" as "chits" that take money out of corporate pockets.

Medicare Part C (Medicare Advantage) was established through H.R.2015 - Balanced Budget Act of 1997

ok let's go brandon- universal health care!?!?

about Medicare for all Americans, but that is what we need. I remember 1997 and the do-nothing GOP Newster House.

These turkeys have been screwing us over for decades, DECADES, ever since the Social Security Act passed back nearly 100 years ago, Wall Street has been trying to get control over it so they can earn PROFITS by creating speculative bubbles (can anyone say 'age-based derivatives bundles?'). And in 1965 when Medicare passed, we all supposedly became commies.

And these Medicare Advantage programs are gradually covering less and charging more, cause profits are everything and we are merely cash cows for these billionaire Wall Street greed lizard parasites until we can't pay anymore, then they hope we won't die too painfully, though they don't really care. Once we've paid out our entire estate to this for-profit healthcare system (and I include nonprofits like Sisters of Catholic Charity and Kaiser in that, too, because they are all about maximizing retained earnings), then we are just dried up husks who had better die as soon as possible so we aren't a bother to CEOs and shareholders.

I'm with Bernie on this one, and like AOC, I believe that billionaires are parasites on our body politic who should be taxed out of existance. Which is why so many billionaires are for Trump.

No, our healthcare system SUCKS, even the ACA nowadays because these insurance companies are charging the absolute MAX they can get away with.

The PROFIT MOTIVE is in direct conflict with our best interests as patients. It is. This is a role for government if there ever was one.

The thing is to be able to expand CMS with the staff needed to handle it.

have the Senate, House AND the White House.

Medicare Advantage programs are terrible. We need better choices for Medicare programs. I get flooded every year with phone calls and mailers trying to get me into one. Your choices are in-network doctors, and if you need a specialist, good luck. Also, your out-of-pocket expenses are high. We need more than a rating we need more upfront information on what's not covered

Medicare is really screwed up with private insurers in the mix. Every year old people get to try to be their own HR department with complex choices and far too many choices, most of which are just a rip off anyway. How about one choice that covers everything. Human bodies get sick.
Medicare used to function well with 3% overhead

It has been 5 star for at least the last 10 years. Bought by Cigna last year (was KelseyAdvantage- specific to the Houston metro area)
Out of pocket is also going up from 3400 to 4450.

I am seriously considering going to Medicare with a Medigap plan (I will be able to do this as I am moving from the coverage area) so no underwriting. Medigaps are about 150-200 for the plan I would want. Advantage plans in the new area are even worse than the ones in Houston. The lowest out of pocket I could find was 5900!

I have friends who are on medicare advantage and if they go out of network they have to pay now some of our doctors aren't taking Medicare Advantage so they're stuck. We need universal health.

Thank you.

prescription drugs for ALL AMERICANS??????????????????

Gosh, then it wouldn't be like a graduate level chemistry exam to enroll in Medicare (why is it so HARD????).

Same with Social Security. It ought to happen automatically. We shouldn't even have to think about it, or apply, and coverage should be automatic.

Because from an end-user perspective, the enrollment process is very confusing. Thanks to years of Republicans weakening these programs a line at a time.

Cause don't you know, Wall Street just needs more PROFITS, and everyone knows that PROFITS are FAR more important than human life!