Re:Health insurance companies are useless
by dv_dt on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:35PM
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They have Medicare Advantage private options. Anecdotally I think people vastly prefer the public Medicare over the more complex private versions.
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Re:Health insurance companies are useless
by howard941 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:43PM
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The MA programs typically offer better benefits than 80/20 Medicare part B because they selectively market to groups of seniors in relatively good health but mostly because they get one hell of a taxpayer subsidy.
To the surprise of no one the promised efficiencies never materialized.
Re:Health insurance companies are useless
by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @10:33AM
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> The MA programs typically offer better benefits than 80/20 Medicare part B
...because the coverage of Medicare Part A + Part B is the legal minimum for Medicare Advantage, so they are necessarily on average greater coverage.