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Medicare is strongly supported by the seniors who receive it - surviving against decades of attempted rollbacks. I don’t know how one ends up thinking people a
by dv_dt 7y ago
Medicare is strongly supported by the seniors who receive it - surviving against decades of attempted rollbacks. I don’t know how one ends up thinking people are unhappy with government administered billing and payments in healthcare.
- merpnderp 7y agoStrongly supported because they love it, or strongly supported because they have exactly zero other options?
- dv_dt 7y agoThey have Medicare Advantage private options. Anecdotally I think people vastly prefer the public Medicare over the more complex private versions.
- howard941 7y agoThe MA programs typically offer better benefits than 80/20 Medicare part B because they selectively market to groups of seniors in relatively good health but mostly because they get one hell of a taxpayer subsidy. To the surprise of no one the promised efficiencies never materialized.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> The MA programs typically offer better benefits than 80/20 Medicare part B ...because the coverage of Medicare Part A + Part B is the legal minimum for Medicare Advantage, so they are necessarily on average greater coverage.
- mikeash 7y agoSeniors vote in large numbers. A politician with a good plan for giving seniors a better option would have a huge advantage. That nobody had used this tactic to attain high office suggests that better options are hard to come up with.
- astura 7y agoCan't they get health insurance through the Obamacare marketplace now?
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- dragonwriter 7y agoNo, eligibility for marketplace plans ends when Medicare eligibility starts.
- fucking_tragedy 7y ago> strongly supported because they have exactly zero other options? Like all Americans, they're free to buy private health insurance.
- refurb 7y agoMedicare Part D (which covers all Medicare patients) and Medicare Advantage are run by private insurers.