Is Medicare Advantage Dead?

Carl McDonald of Oppenheimer and Carl Mercurio of Corporate Research Group discuss the prospects for Medicare Advantage under Obama's newly proposed budget. From the Nasdaq Market Site in New York.

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[Becauseuranidiot]

@Jsd8675 I am an insurance agent and have represented MA, MAPD and SUPP Plans for every major company for many years....and evidently you are a moron.

[Becauseuranidiot]

Mr183462....nevermind you can't educate the unwillimg

[Jsd8675]

@Becauseuranidiot Haha wow... you don't even understand what Medicare Advantage does, and you're calling an insurance agent a moron.

[Mr183462]

If you would have taken out a medicare supplemental instead of a MA plan you would have paid ZERO!!!

[mustangersalie]

- i have medicare blue cross advantgage medical only and had a major operation & was only susposed to be in the hosp 6 to 7 days but was actually in for 16 days i only had to pay $350 total & my very good advantage plan paid the rest - now on just regular medicare i would have had to pay at least 20% on one big whopping bill which my basic math tells me it sure would have been a LOT more than $350.00

[mustangersalie]

Hussein's ''health care plan'' is to eliminate all the seniors & disabled that he can -plain and simple

[gmmort3a]

Regardless of who is right, these facts are indisputable. Seniors DO NOT have to sign up, they can stay on Medicare if they CHOOSE. They CHOOSE to participate for those additional benefits that fit their budget and HC needs. But CHOICE will soon be gone, CIGNA is out and soon others will follow. All that will be left is one option forcing you to pay and receive what it decides is acceptable.

[Mr183462]

Mr. Idiot If you are on a medicare advantage plan medicare pays ZERO on the bill because you are NO LONGER ON MEDICARE!!!! MEDICARE ADVANTAGE TAKES THE PLACE OF MEDICARE!!!! What you are talking about is a medicare SUPPLEMENT. You need to learn the difference.

[Becauseuranidiot]

Well evidently you are a moron and if the shoe fits... Any MA standardized or not....Pays the 20% medicare does not pay less its associiated deductible. ie., 100,000.00 Bill Medicare pays 80,000.00 and all MA's are required to pay, less the annual deductible, 20% of that cost. You need to read the existing federal law pertaining to Medicare Part C and stop posting inaccurate information....

[Mr183462]

You need to double check your information, MA's are not standardized therefore like I explained above they are only required to provide at least the same coverage as original medicare. Thinking that all Med Advantage plans would pay more than medicare doesn't make sense. You truly show your intelligence with the moron comment.