Originally Posted by midwestbroker
Clinton was the one that standardized the plans in the 1997 balance budget act. They were called Medicare+Choice.
They have been "stealthy pushed" on seniors since the mid 80's. Approx 30% of seniors in the Kansas City market have a
MA plan.
I know but they failed in all but the high density senior populated areas like Miami because the balanced budget act balanced the budget in part by cutting funding to Medicare + Choice.
I say stealthy because the MMA in 2002 was a mission to privatize Medicare but had the Bush Administration used plain talk with the Grey Panther constituents and say " Our goal is to privatize Medicare but we know it can't happen overnight and you wouldn't accept it even if we could so we will accomplish this by encouraging voluntary participation in Medicare Advantage using bait and switch tactics and once enrollment gets to a critical mass there will be no turning back because all the healthy people will be in
MA and all the sick people will be left on original Medicare and the original Medicare risk pool will become a cesspool and premiums and cost share will continue to increase therefore increasing
MA enrollment even more until Original Medicare is a thing of the past " the Medicare Modernization Act of 2002 would probably have not become law.
So most seniors are still not fully aware that Medicare is being privatized they are told they are not losing Part A or B but getting Part C and that will now have a wonderful plan that must be good for them because it says " Advantage " right on the box it their " Advantage " and their
MA plan is especially good because it's called something like "Advantage Gold Double Plus Premium Plan " and comes with unlimited free visits to PCP Dr Vvishen Rimmandhri office
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