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Strongly supported because they love it, or strongly supported because they have exactly zero other options?
by merpnderp 7y ago
Strongly 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.