Posts Tagged ‘Medicare Advantage’
UnitedHealthcare cancels agreements with doctors servicing Medicare Advantage patients
As of February, more than 2,000 physicians will be dropped from UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare Advantage program in Connecticut. Although you’ll see this referred to as a profit-related move in the media, this is not about United being greedy.
Read MoreWhat does President Obama do in an election year…try to fool seniors
Obamacare cuts billions from Medicare. The cuts, in large part, come from demolishing Medicare Advantage. This is an extremely popular program run by private insurance companies, and therein lies the rub. Private means that you make the choice, the government does not make the choice for you, and, under Obamacare, this will never do.
Read MoreMedicare Advantage is dead…well, not quite
By now everyone knows that a large piece of Obamacare’s “deficit neutrality” comes from the provision that would eliminate Medicare Advantage programs for seniors. This will “save” the government some $136 billion over 10 years. Medicare Advantage is despised by the left because it is privately run, and demonstrates to all that “market pricing and competition” are…
Read MoreWhen the Truth is Found to be Lies
So, remember all those promises that the Democrats and the President made about healthcare? Get to keep your doctor, save you money and it would all be delivered by flying unicorns? Well, maybe not.
Read MoreObamacare: here’s an idea, let’s steal from the seniors
We are told that millions who currently have no health insurance will soon be covered under Obamacare. But, where will the money come from to do this? By 2017, thousands of people in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio will be paying more than $5,000 per year in lost health-care benefits to make ObamaCare possible…[f]or some…
Read MoreThe Baucus gag order:Update below video
Recently Humana, a Kentucky insurance company that offers Medicare Advantage plans, sent a letter to all of the seniors enrolled in its plans. Although some say the form of the letter may have been an issue, it is the substance of the letter that drew outrage from Senator Baucus (D-Mont.), the author of the Baucus Unaffordable Health Care Bill.…
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