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Shocker. They want Medicare for all. Instead of buying a med Supp, they bought a “cheaper” MAPD and complained when they don’t get what they want. Then they turn to the govt and want more free.
Some people don't want or need expensive first dollar coverage. Medicare Advantage is not free and is the right choice for many beneficiaries. The author is a far left-wing socialist, promoting Medicare-for-All, not Original Medicare.
Exactly this. Both of your posts were very well-written and excellent. They also say they want “MediCARE For All,” but what they really want, and the system they describe, is actually “MedicAID-For-All,” and we all know what a sh!tshow MedicAID is.
They just know saying “MedicAID” won’t be popular among the general population. It’s all branding and propaganda.
For those that don’t know, MediCARE is a system that people have paid into for their entire lives, and then continue to pay a little bit into when they go on it. That’s what separates it from completely-taxpayer-funded MedicAID.
This, and the supplement and Medicare Advantage money they involve, are the reason the networks are so huge and so many doctors and hospitals take MediCARE. Because MediCARE (with the extra money insurance companies have via their supplements and Medicare Advantage plans) can reimburse them a much higher and respectable rate for their service.
MedicAID networks are pin thin and they cannot reimburse like this. Why? Because it’s solely funded by taxpayers and the money isn’t there at all, because no one has been contributing to any sort of fund for it.
An example….doctors usually bill around $150 for a visit. MedicAID might reimburse them $8 for that visit, and they’ll get paid a year later….if they’re “lucky.”
MedicAID puts anyone on it at risk of unbelievably substandard care from substandard doctors. There’s a reason a lot of them have to accept MedicAID, because they’re likely not the best. Not saying there aren’t some good ones, but they usually have a wait list to see them that’s 6 months out.
I know this first-hand from dealing with it.
I've seen the fee schedules for Medicaid and (at least in NC) and it's nowhere close to $8 - it's much higher some office consults over $130.
But I get your overall point - medicaid and low reimbursements and no skin in the game from the patient is not a good recipe.