Medicare Advantage plans are not only ripping off America's seniors, they are bankrupting physicians and hospitals with their fraudulent scheme of "delay, deny and not pay."
The jig is up: "16% of health systems are planning to stop accepting one or more Medicare Advantage plans in the next two years. Another 45% said they are considering the same but have not made a final decision."
That seems to be pissing off Medicare Advantage CEOs. Sachin Jain, MD, CEO of SCAN Group — one of the nation's largest nonprofit Medicare Advantage companies said, "You're a nonprofit system saying you're no longer going to accept the insurance that low-income people actually have. We'll see how that works out for you."
No, you pathological piece of shit, we'll see how that works out for YOU. These health systems are already not getting paid by your fraudulent system of collecting insurance premiums but denying payment for care. They have nothing to lose. You're a sociopathic predator and you deserve bankruptcy and imprisonment.
"And now, Republicans are saying that if they retake the White House they will change the Medicare rules so that people newly turning 65 will enroll by default into Medicare Advantage rather than real, traditional Medicare, further enhancing the profits of these massive, billion-dollar insurance giants while rapidly killing off real, traditional Medicare."
@StillIRise1963
an insurance agent defending #MedicareAdvantage called the @ThomHartmann show yesterday to talk about why his customers liked it
Hartmann let him slit his own throat for a while, then dismantled him on the air
It was lovely
@FAIR "...if we continue on the path of incremental "progress" begun by the Affordable Care Act, [U.S.] Americans can expect everyone to have health insurance that covers our medical needs without the threat of bankruptcy in about 500 years."
"More than 30 million older Americans are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans, wooed by lower premiums and more benefits than traditional Medicare offers.
But a bipartisan group of lawmakers is increasingly concerned that insurance companies are preying on seniors, and, in some cases, denying care that would otherwise be approved by traditional Medicare."
'This should be a national scandal': Medicare Advantage plans using AI for denials
"MA plans are not part of Medicare. They are a private health insurance "scam" created by a GOP-controlled Congress and signed into law 20 years ago by then-President George W. Bush 'as a way of routing hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars into the pockets of for-profit insurance companies,'" #medicare#MedicareAdvantage#AI https://www.alternet.org/medicare-advantage-2666145220/
@ProPublica#CorporateOligarchy#PublicHealth#SinglePayorNow#M4A Glad for ProPublica reporting on this. However, very similar stories/exposés have been happening for years. They show just how badly a profit-motive driven capitalist insurance system perverts and dehumanizes the healthcare system. Makes it even more obvious the #MedicareAdvantage scam to privatize #Medicare is evil. Despite the recurring exposés, the #CorporateOligarchy 's lock on our political system prevents serious change.
Over the past 40 years, Republicans have pulled off an incredible magic trick. They’ve convinced average working people that tax cuts benefit them when in fact the opposite is true. How much longer will America fall for their BS?
Remember "#DeathPanels"? #SarahPalin promised us that #UniversalHealthcare was a prelude to a Stalinist nightmare in which unaccountable bureaucrats decided who lived or died based on a cost-benefit analysis of what it would cost to keep you alive versus how much your life was worth.
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CMS's solution is perverse: they're working with Humana to expand #MedicareAdvantage (a scam that convinces patients to give up Medicare and enrol in a private insurance program, whose private-sector death panel rejects 13% of claims that Medicare would have paid for). The program will pay private companies $32,000 for every patient who agrees to cease care and die. As our friends on the right like to say, "incentives matter."
SO CALLED "MEDICARE ADVANTAGE* CAN CRIPPLE YOU IN THE RACE AGAINST CANCER
MA beneficiaries are far less likely than traditional Medicare beneficiaries to receive cancer care at a teaching hospital (23 percent with Medicare versus 8 percent with MA), Commission on Cancer-accredited hospital (57 percent versus 33 percent) or NCI-CCC (15 percent versus 3 percent).