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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
That is more smoke and mirrors. Seniors are going to lose benefits. You keep bringing up "gym memberships" and that is right out of the Demoncratic playbook of talking points. That is a very minor part of MA. Most seniors do not share your view of it being a "marginal loss". They are quite worried about what BS this Congress is about to foist on them.
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Medicare Advantage will no longer pay the current (15% above the agreed upon rates) that have been ripping off the program for the last 10 years.
Instead, it will pay the average rates established for a region...it wont be the same for Mississippi as New York....but in both cases, it will no longer be the current highest rate.
Seniors will not lose unless you believe that no insurance company will come in with a proposal below the current rip-off rates. If a company offers the program at a 5% above the agreed upon rates (with fewer benefits) and the current company maintains the 15% (with many less essential enhanced benefits) ...the maxmimum rate for the region will be 10% (with benefits between the two) and then either or both can compete for patients at that rate. In any case, there is savings without loss of most patient services, with the exception, possibly of those most enhanced services (gym memberships, eye glasses) that are nice benefits but not as essential to basic health care.
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[You like to whine about how anyone who disagrees with your party and those whores in Congress must be Republikin. Just because people disagree with what this majority is doing to this country does not make them "partisan" or "Republican" or "Right-wing". If you believe that you are paranoid. Stop. You are starting to sound like Hiltery Clinton and her statements about a "vast right-wing conspiracy".
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Certainly, by any measure, not as much as you whine about Democrats in nearly every post.
It is not an issued of the letter after the name....it is the talking points in most of your daily opinion pieces that have an agenda....an agenda that makes them partisan.
But enough of this bullshit.....your opinion is no more valid than mine...but you wont accept that.