If they cut $1 trillion from going to Medicare Advantage programs upcoding things, the Medicare Advantage people won’t go “ah, shucks, they caught us. Guess our years of grifting are over.” The Medicare Advantage programs will just pass that on to the consumer, which will cause some people to drop it, causing the prices to go even higher.
Soon we will see a two-tier medical system for old people: Rich old people and not rich old people, and the pressure for medicare to cover more things will grow.
That’s already how it is.
Yeah, I like the belief that in the US there isn’t a tiering of medical services based on wealth. I mean that’s probably pretty true everywhere, but especially in the US. I mean there’s already medigap insurance.
Please do it
I mean, doing away with Medicare Advantage is a great idea. While they’re at it, break up health care monopolies and especially include a provision to make PBM illegal.
I heard somewhere that the overhead costs for standard Medicare is around 4-5%. Medicare Advantage comes in around 15%, because of the need to turn a profit. It’s very inefficient. The public option was always the best way to go, but we’re stuck with this stupid narrative that private options will be more efficient. Like trickle-down economics, it’s bullshit, and it needs to be exposed at every opportunity so that maybe folks will finally realize they’ve been hoodwinked.
Fantasy, I know, but I can still hope for truth and rational thinking to win the day.
Fantasy, I know, but I can still hope for truth and rational thinking to win the day.
It is so odd to me that we know our whole system is killing us sooner than necessary, mentally, physically, financially, and that we all plainly see solutions, but lack the will to make it happen. We’ve become softer than butter left outside in summer.
Republicans: The richest 0.01% doesn’t have enough of everyone’s money, and unfortunately someone is going to have to pay for that. Sorry, bottom 90%, but you can make do with less.
And cheer up - if you can’t pay for health care out of pocket, you can always just die.
“We’re all going to die.”
—Joni Ernst
“Good! Medicare is socialism, and socialism is bad for the people.”
-MAGA
As they say, everyone dies
This is what they said when trying to establish social security too.
gasp No way!
(that would be on top of medicaid, to be clear)
