Congress should investigate for-profit Medicare Advantage plans that are siphoning billions from the Medicare Trust Fund while they delay and deny care to seniors and the disabled.
This time of year, those of us on Medicare get to decide which version we want to have for the next year. The emergence in 1998 of Medicare Advantage plans, which offered privatized capitation alternatives to the traditional Medicare fee-for-service system led to many different plans from many different insurance companies. Medicare Advantage is lucrative for the insurance