This is incorrect. Medicare Advantage completely supplants regular Medicare, you sign away your right to be on regular Medicare and you cannot go back.
Once a patient enrolls in an advantage plan they lose the ability to see any physician they want. They also lose payment based on “medical necessity” which means if your doctor thinks you need the care medicare will pay for it. Advantage plans can and do deny care they don’t want to pay for and also deny care by artificially restricting the number of providers you can see . These plans look good but they are really bad news as care isn’t there anymore when you need it.
Well there’s both sides, I mean while in theory it’s just the free market making a stopgap for the weakpoints in medicare to buy time for them to be fixed. The reality is we already know what happens when corporations get their hands on something that shouldn’t be free market. They rack up killer profits, and use those profits to buy congressmen and judges, and before long not only is congress not going to move forward to stregnthen medicare to cover those holes… but in fact create new ones to make sure that medicare becomes even less valuable without one of these plans.
The reality is we already know what happens when corporations get their hands on something that shouldn’t be free market. They rack up killer profits, and use those profits to buy congressmen and judges
So they do exactly what they do with things that should be free markets, also.
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This is incorrect. Medicare Advantage completely supplants regular Medicare, you sign away your right to be on regular Medicare and you cannot go back.
bullshit. if medicare should cover more then we should make it cover more. of course this is a bad thing. are you crazy?!
Once a patient enrolls in an advantage plan they lose the ability to see any physician they want. They also lose payment based on “medical necessity” which means if your doctor thinks you need the care medicare will pay for it. Advantage plans can and do deny care they don’t want to pay for and also deny care by artificially restricting the number of providers you can see . These plans look good but they are really bad news as care isn’t there anymore when you need it.
Well there’s both sides, I mean while in theory it’s just the free market making a stopgap for the weakpoints in medicare to buy time for them to be fixed. The reality is we already know what happens when corporations get their hands on something that shouldn’t be free market. They rack up killer profits, and use those profits to buy congressmen and judges, and before long not only is congress not going to move forward to stregnthen medicare to cover those holes… but in fact create new ones to make sure that medicare becomes even less valuable without one of these plans.
So they do exactly what they do with things that should be free markets, also.