Thanks CC! As we wrote about 35 years ago in our book Modern Medicine: What You're Dying to Know, our legislators need to protect the public, that's their job, although it's often hard to tell. Unfortunately, many of the spigots are in the government. Look at CMS! Each year CMS spends (wastes) $83 to $88 billion on Medicare Advantage, a 30-year-old misguided effort to privatize Medicare. Oz has just added another 25 billion, so 113 billion of debt in one year, every year. MedPAC chair, PhD Michael Chernew is happy to report to our legislators that Medicare Advantage provides less care for more money than Traditional Medicare. Makes sense ONLY if you own the private equity Medicare Advantage stocks, as Oz does, and probably many senators do too. It seems that private inurement is alive and well in Washington DC! Legislators looking after themselves first and foremost. We could save $113 billion per year, provide MUCH BETTER care to our consumers, and give MUCH LESS grief to our providers with either the stroke of the presidents pen or one months of legislative action. BUT! I have emailed my two ND senators, my ND Rep, and DOGE regarding saving tones of waste fraud and abuse. No response from DOGE and my Rep. AI response from both senators telling me how wonderful Medicare Advantage is. So although they could go a long way to fixing this...it will probably take a grass roots effort to overcome private inurement.
The topics were very well explained! Would love to read more about the 30 year history on Medicare Advantage!
Advertising on MA should be towed to the nearest dump station! One after the next advertising, plants unfertilized seeds in the minds of our seniors, believes the lies and gets nothing in return; other than a few exercises!
The insurance benefits within Social Security were based on healthcare in retirement. Holistic healthcare to provide hope as well as cures began with a two-way dialogue between doctors and patients. Dialogue: to listen, learn and apply what is heard and known of “family medical history”! Listening, learning to also find the “unknowns” leading to failure to diagnose and treat!
Thanks CC! As we wrote about 35 years ago in our book Modern Medicine: What You're Dying to Know, our legislators need to protect the public, that's their job, although it's often hard to tell. Unfortunately, many of the spigots are in the government. Look at CMS! Each year CMS spends (wastes) $83 to $88 billion on Medicare Advantage, a 30-year-old misguided effort to privatize Medicare. Oz has just added another 25 billion, so 113 billion of debt in one year, every year. MedPAC chair, PhD Michael Chernew is happy to report to our legislators that Medicare Advantage provides less care for more money than Traditional Medicare. Makes sense ONLY if you own the private equity Medicare Advantage stocks, as Oz does, and probably many senators do too. It seems that private inurement is alive and well in Washington DC! Legislators looking after themselves first and foremost. We could save $113 billion per year, provide MUCH BETTER care to our consumers, and give MUCH LESS grief to our providers with either the stroke of the presidents pen or one months of legislative action. BUT! I have emailed my two ND senators, my ND Rep, and DOGE regarding saving tones of waste fraud and abuse. No response from DOGE and my Rep. AI response from both senators telling me how wonderful Medicare Advantage is. So although they could go a long way to fixing this...it will probably take a grass roots effort to overcome private inurement.
Brilliant reveal. Who's going to turn off the tap of misdirected profits?
The topics were very well explained! Would love to read more about the 30 year history on Medicare Advantage!
Advertising on MA should be towed to the nearest dump station! One after the next advertising, plants unfertilized seeds in the minds of our seniors, believes the lies and gets nothing in return; other than a few exercises!
The insurance benefits within Social Security were based on healthcare in retirement. Holistic healthcare to provide hope as well as cures began with a two-way dialogue between doctors and patients. Dialogue: to listen, learn and apply what is heard and known of “family medical history”! Listening, learning to also find the “unknowns” leading to failure to diagnose and treat!