Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage – the private alternative to Medicare that promised to cost less
theconversation.com
Rather than finding efficiencies and saving money all around, the private companies that administer the Medicare Advantage option to Medicare are profiting at seniors’ – and taxpayers’ – expense.
  • Not_mikey@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    How much of that is also just going to outright scams? Every other phone call i get these days is scammers trying to get the Medicare i don’t have.

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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      2 years ago

      advantage itself seems like a scam. medicare should not utilize public insurers and should just itself cover after max out of pocket.