It’s time to save Traditional Medicare
It’s time to save Traditional Medicare. Join the fight against the privatization of Medicare, which the medical-industrial complex is attempting wholesale and by a thousand cuts.
Medicare Advantage companies take advantage of Medicare. They: 1. lobby for and gain unjustifiably high per-member payments from Medicare funds, 2. aggressively up-code patients’ illnesses to maximize profit, 3. recruit (cherry-pick) low-risk clients and avoid/drive out (lemon-drop) high-risk clients, 4. restrict access to care with narrow provider networks and pre-authorization hurdles, 5. divert as much as 15% of the Medicare funds they receive into profit and administrative overhead, 6. abandon unprofitable geographic regions, forcing patients to find new care providers.
Urge our U.S. Senators and Representatives, President Biden, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra to:
1. save Medicare from further privatization and restore the original intent of Medicare to serve all Americans aged 65 and older (and disabled Americans) equally and without discrepancy in service, cost, or provider reimbursement; and 2. rescind the 20% co-pay requirement for Traditional Medicare that lures or forces many Medicare recipients into Medicare Advantage because of its lower or no premiums; and. 3. require the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to monitor and end fraud in the existing privatized Medicare programs; and 4. cap administrative costs and profits in the Medicare Advantage and ACO-REACH programs at no more than that of Traditional Medicare.
It’s time to save Traditional Medicare
It’s time to save Traditional Medicare. Join the fight against the privatization of Medicare, which the medical-industrial complex is attempting wholesale and by a thousand cuts.
Medicare Advantage companies take advantage of Medicare. They: 1. lobby for and gain unjustifiably high per-member payments from Medicare funds, 2. aggressively up-code patients’ illnesses to maximize profit, 3. recruit (cherry-pick) low-risk clients and avoid/drive out (lemon-drop) high-risk clients, 4. restrict access to care with narrow provider networks and pre-authorization hurdles, 5. divert as much as 15% of the Medicare funds they receive into profit and administrative overhead, 6. abandon unprofitable geographic regions, forcing patients to find new care providers.
Urge our U.S. Senators and Representatives, President Biden, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra to:
1. save Medicare from further privatization and restore the original intent of Medicare to serve all Americans aged 65 and older (and disabled Americans) equally and without discrepancy in service, cost, or provider reimbursement; and 2. rescind the 20% co-pay requirement for Traditional Medicare that lures or forces many Medicare recipients into Medicare Advantage because of its lower or no premiums; and. 3. require the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to monitor and end fraud in the existing privatized Medicare programs; and 4. cap administrative costs and profits in the Medicare Advantage and ACO-REACH programs at no more than that of Traditional Medicare.