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Since passage of the 1965 Medicare law, special interests inside and outside of government have continually bent the intent of Medicare in order to maximize corporate profits at the expense of taxpayers, seniors, and the disabled.: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America..." describe the corporate campaign to turn public goods and services into private profit-centers, paralleling the U.S. half-century, the U.S.
If Health and Human Services, CMS and legislators fulfilled their responsibility to protect Medicare for the People, the plan would have been streamlined long ago. There would be no need for complicating costly supplemental insurance plans such as Parts A, B, C, D, and Medigap., defender of Traditional Medicare, affirms that "Few programs in the history of the United States have brought as much benefit to society as Medicare...
These giant insurance companies ripped off our tax dollars last year to the tune of an estimated $140 billion over and above what it would’ve caused us if people had simply been on real Medicare. And while the companies refuse to tell us how much of the $64 billion that we’re throwing at them this year to offer “free” dental, etc. is actually used, what we do know is that most of that money is, in one study only 11% of Advantage policyholders who’d signed up with plans offering dental care used that benefit.in the insurance companies’ money bins just for that goodie.
The People's Action leader pointed out that "we countered their lobbying by helping people share their stories with lawmakers about how Medicare Advantage plans harmed them by denying care when they needed it most."
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