Top 10 Things Wrong With Medicare

Who is behind this "Ten Things" list? Whoever it is, they are doing a pretty good job themselves of spin doctoring.

Number 5:
MAPD (Medicare Advantage Plans with built in Drug Plans) advertising is misleading. Seniors can't understand the differences in types of coverage.

It goes on to talk about doctors not accepting MAPD terms of payment, and how the doc may accept a certain plan one day, but then not accepting it the next. We all know this is true of PFFS but not other types of plans, but some readers of this list may not.

Overall, it's a good list, but I'm still wondering what the end game of the author is.
 
Sounds like AARP/UHC to me...

Which AARP would that be? The AARP that lobbied Congress to take funds from the Medicare Advantage subsidies and allocate it to physician reimbursement rates, or the other AARP that hawks MA plans. Talk about playing both ends and the middle.
 
My top 10 list...

1. Going to run out of money, it won't, we will just have higher taxes
2. 1-800 Medicare is answered by rejected crash test dummies
3. Most people that have an opinion of Medicare do not know how it works
4. The lock-in, and how Medicare does not care if you picked the wrong plan
5. Slime ball agents
6. Dr.'s abusing the system
7. The Medicare & You book is rearragned every year to furhter the confusion
8. PFFS plans were rolled out all wrong
9. Does not cover annual physical exams
10. SHIP programs are ran by half wits
 
My top 10 list...

1. Going to run out of money, it won't, we will just have higher taxes
2. 1-800 Medicare is answered by rejected crash test dummies
3. Most people that have an opinion of Medicare do not know how it works
4. The lock-in, and how Medicare does not care if you picked the wrong plan
5. Slime ball agents
6. Dr.'s abusing the system
7. The Medicare & You book is rearragned every year to furhter the confusion
8. PFFS plans were rolled out all wrong
9. Does not cover annual physical exams
10. SHIP programs are ran by half wits

Regarding #10, you are giving them too much credit.

Rick
 
My top 10 list...

1. Going to run out of money, it won't, we will just have higher taxes
2. 1-800 Medicare is answered by rejected crash test dummies
3. Most people that have an opinion of Medicare do not know how it works
4. The lock-in, and how Medicare does not care if you picked the wrong plan
5. Slime ball agents
6. Dr.'s abusing the system
7. The Medicare & You book is rearragned every year to furhter the confusion
8. PFFS plans were rolled out all wrong
9. Does not cover annual physical exams
10. SHIP programs are ran by half wits


Enjoy this 90's Classic

 
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The "top10thingswrongwithmedicare" email is spam connected to Mypartdusa.org spammers. They've been spamming off and on for the past couple of years. Please don't take anything they say in the spam emails seriously.
 
They make some good points.....people that sign up for a Part D prescription plan are locked in for the whole year...yet the insurance company can change their formulary anytime throughout the year and the client can't do anything about it. Common sense tells you that's not right. If the client can't change than the insurance company shouldn't be able to make a change during that same time period to their formulary...give the insurance company a lock in period also
 
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They make some good points.....people that sign up for a Part D prescription plan are locked in for the whole year...yet the insurance company can change their formulary anytime throughout the year and the client can't do anything about it. Common sense tells you that's not right. If the client can't change than the insurance company shouldn't be able to make a change during that same time period to their formulary...give the insurance company a lock in period also


Good point!
 
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