Healthcare… Seniors, Do you think AARP really serves or exploits your interest?
Seniors have been duped into voting for a party that really does not care about them. Oh, they say that they do, but this plan says something completely different. Over $350 billion cost of this new health plan is coming from Medicare “savings.”
The democrats are telling you, these cuts are coming from reducing fraud and waste… that is a sham. If there is fraud and waste in Medicare now, why hasn’t it been eliminated? Do we really need onerous new laws to get rid of it, I think not!
To add insult to injury…. the AARP dumps seniors into a less care for more money plan, too. Oh, they will gladly take their money… but happily endorse massive CUTS to Medicare!
Follow the money: AARP takes in more than half of its $1.1 billion budget in royalty fees from health insurers and other vendors that market services with the organization’s name. Medicare supplementary policies, called “Medigap” plans, are the largest share of this revenue. AARP has an interest in selling more Medigap plans. But there is a competitor on the block, that may provide better coverage at a lower cost. A growing number of seniors are enrolling in a new form of Medicare coverage – Medicare Advantage. With Medicare Advantage they don’t need Medigap.
Medicare Advantage, created in 2003, gives seniors the option of joining private plans that provide better health benefits than traditional Medicare. These private plans compete with each other by offering seniors lower premiums, better prescription coverage, dental and vision care, and more comprehensive coverage for major medical expenses. Almost 11 million of Medicare’s 45-million beneficiaries are in Medicare Advantage.
Oh… did you know… the Democrats, having demonized the insurance companies as greedy profit-mongers, have given a plump treat to those ”greedy insurance companies” – immunity from lawsuits. How sweet is that? And I ask, put on your thinking cap and think really hard about what you may have heard about insurance companies.
Wake up seniors before it is too late… I fear, it may already be! I dare say, wake up Americans! It seems our elected leaders are in the pocket of very large multinational corporations. And are more than willing to provide every advantage to these corporations to the detriment of you, the American citizen.
Read more here:
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