The Obama administration announced Wednesday that the Medicare Advantage program, which allows seniors to receive health coverage through a private insurer, is enjoying lower costs and more customers as a result of the health care reform law.
Medicare Advantage enrollment has risen 10 percent over the last year while average premiums have fallen by 7 percent, said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. She also pointed out that similar improvements were seen the previous year.
The figures bolster President Obama’s defense of his signature achievement, and for Democrats it has the added bonus of refuting earlier Republican warnings that “Obamacare” would gravely undermine the choice provisions in Medicare.
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Dear Average Conservative Joe,
It's time for you to learn the difference between people telling you what you want to hear and who to blame, and people who are actually looking out for your best interests.
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Well, it's like this: any time a Repub says with absolute certainty that X will happen , I assume that the opposite is the most likely result...
We have Medicare Advantage coverage. Costs $810 per month. Medicare now costs us about $93 per month each, down from the previous $110 because we're 66 years old. It comes right out of our SocSec benefits.
Whole thing comes to about $11,000 per year. Sounds like a lot unless we get sick or hurt. Given medical costs these days, it would then be dirt cheap.
We get $1845 per month SocSec for the two of us, $92 per month more than last year.
God help anybody who doesn't set up some other income before they get on the ice floe of retirement.
If any of those chickenhawks had served the way we did they could have experienced the nightmare of socialized VA medical care. I love mine.
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