Senate GOP eyes Medicare cuts to pay for Trump bill
Senate GOP eyes Medicare cuts to pay for Trump bill
"Good! Medicare is socialism, and socialism is bad for the people."
-MAGA
This is what they said when trying to establish social security too.
As they say, everyone dies
gasp No way!
(that would be on top of medicaid, to be clear)
If they cut $1 trillion from going to Medicare Advantage programs upcoding things, the Medicare Advantage people won't go "ah, shucks, they caught us. Guess our years of grifting are over." The Medicare Advantage programs will just pass that on to the consumer, which will cause some people to drop it, causing the prices to go even higher.
Soon we will see a two-tier medical system for old people: Rich old people and not rich old people, and the pressure for medicare to cover more things will grow.
That's already how it is.
Yeah, I like the belief that in the US there isn't a tiering of medical services based on wealth. I mean that's probably pretty true everywhere, but especially in the US. I mean there's already medigap insurance.
Please do it
I mean, doing away with Medicare Advantage is a great idea. While they're at it, break up health care monopolies and especially include a provision to make PBM illegal.
I heard somewhere that the overhead costs for standard Medicare is around 4-5%. Medicare Advantage comes in around 15%, because of the need to turn a profit. It's very inefficient. The public option was always the best way to go, but we're stuck with this stupid narrative that private options will be more efficient. Like trickle-down economics, it's bullshit, and it needs to be exposed at every opportunity so that maybe folks will finally realize they've been hoodwinked.
Fantasy, I know, but I can still hope for truth and rational thinking to win the day.