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Re:Health insurance companies are useless by howard941 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:43PM (#20626882)
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.

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Re:Health insurance companies are useless by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @10:33AM (#20635024)
> 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.

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