Say Goodbye to Medicare Advantage

[GreenSky]

I am so glad he is attacking senior first, then individual. LOL.

If you were older, you wouldn't say that.

Rick

 

[TXINSURANCE]

No worries Rick he is going after everyone in due time... LOL.

 

[Cenla Agent]

I say no way it is going away entirely, but PFFS is likely to fade away with the cuts and copays and perhaps premiums will go up with HMO plans.

 

[midwestbroker]

You can tell who the agents are that do not live by a major metro area...

 

[jdeasy]

MA is done, stick a fork in it. First to go will be the PFFS. Then with the rate to companies being cut to the 100% level, the HMO/PPO's will not survive.

The companies have to make money to do them. At the 100% level, they can't. They have already demonstrated that they can't do a better job than the government with handling the healthcare for seniors. That's a really sad statement for the insirance companies.

They had a golden opportunity to privatize medicare and blew it with inept management.

As an agent, I hate to see it go, but, as a taxpayor, I don't want the government to keep throwing my money away to these poorly managed companies.

 

[URDRWHO]

I like to keep track of the good, the bad and the ugly of all this stuff. What links can you direct me to that will prove your statement?

"They have already demonstrated that they can't do a better job than the government with handling the healthcare for seniors. That's a really sad statement for the insirance companies."

MA is done, stick a fork in it. First to go will be the PFFS. Then with the rate to companies being cut to the 100% level, the HMO/PPO's will not survive.

I've always told the seniors to enjoy those low MA premiums because they will not last forever.

The companies have to make money to do them. At the 100% level, they can't. They have already demonstrated that they can't do a better job than the government with handling the healthcare for seniors. That's a really sad statement for the insirance companies.

They had a golden opportunity to privatize medicare and blew it with inept management.

As an agent, I hate to see it go, but, as a taxpayor, I don't want the government to keep throwing my money away to these poorly managed companies.

 

[Winter_123]

MA is done, stick a fork in it. First to go will be the PFFS. Then with the rate to companies being cut to the 100% level, the HMO/PPO's will not survive.

The companies have to make money to do them. At the 100% level, they can't. They have already demonstrated that they can't do a better job than the government with handling the healthcare for seniors. That's a really sad statement for the insirance companies.

They had a golden opportunity to privatize medicare and blew it with inept management.

As an agent, I hate to see it go, but, as a taxpayor, I don't want the government to keep throwing my money away to these poorly managed companies.

Also, the public is not savvy enough to follow the difference between a PFFS plan and an hmo or ppo plan- understandably so. So that puts the carriers of hmo ma's in a position of trying to market these plans while the government is badmouthing something called a medicare advantage plan. Doesnt work that well. It is like trying to explain to clients that AIG is in the dumpster but it's life insurance division is not. It can be done but the product starts out on the ropes defending itself.

 

[midwestbroker]

So how do you explain how HMO plans have been around since the early 90's in Kansas City?

They were surviving long before over funding, and I do not see them going anywhere.

 

[dandan]

Bye Bye MA!

 

[Russ]

"""Say Goodbye to Medicare Advantage""" ......


I never said hello to it. My total number of MA plans on the books....

zero~