Cutting Medicare Advantage

Bob Moffit, the Director of the Center for Health Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation, discusses the importance of not cutting funding for Medicare Advantage.




The Facts: Medicare Advantage

http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/factsonmedicareadvantage.cfm

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[MrFunkdoctorspot]

Republican. Corporate. Shills.

Allowing companies to make mountains of cash off the backs of sick people by citing pre-existing conditions.

[jtimleck1]

I'm sorry and WHY were you in the hospital "Ms/Mr I Take Perfect Care of MYSELF" ? Why didn't you have your own doctor do it in his OWN office? Oh, and did you pay ALL of your OWN bill?

[archelonprime]

@Sifuchuck Medicare Part C (a.k.a. Medicare Advantage) is nothing more than insurance company special interest BULLSHIT. All of the health care items that are dealt with should've simply been covered with REAL Medicare, where the motive is actual health care, NOT profits!

It got worse with Medicare Part D, written by and for the pharmaceutical industry!

It amazes me that so many "conservatives" support this kind of shit and then complain about how expensive it is. Conservative my ass!

[Damis101]

You people are such wh*res for the private health care industry. Seniors who enrolled in this sham program were told it was a part of medicare and have no idea that they signed on to a for-profit plan that bilks Medicare in their name and holds out necessary medical care when they need it. How do you sleep?

[mustangersalie]

when did medicare advantage cover dental, vision and hearing ? ----

[jtimleck1]

Oh yeah, and why did Republicans side with the bill? Because cutting the 13% giveaway to PRIVATE practices participating in Medicare that Bush doled out is MORE fiscal savings than the 10% cut to senoirs programming and public doctors. Go figure.. H.F. is looking out to make sure CORPORATE welfare is alive and well, even when it costs MORE money than Social Welfare. Kinda tells you a lot doesn't it?

[jtimleck1]

From Heritage Fndtn

"Moffit .. bachelor's degree .. poli sci.. LaSalle U in Phil. ...his doctorate U. Arizona. During the Reagan Admin... served as the Assist. Dir. of Congressional Relations in the Office of Pers. Mgmt & as the Dep Asst Sec Dept of Hlth & Human Services."

Runs "Center for Health Studies"?! With a POLI-SCI degree, was *dep.*, *asst.*, *sec.* in the DHHS. He doesn't know health. He was the Bitch, of the Bitch, of the Bitch, to the boss. The "Get me Coffee/Photocopies done" boy.

[blueangelarts]

i was in the hospital and saw fat, out of shape seniors who had destroyed their own health over years of self neglect. people like me who are middle aged that have good diet, exercise should not subsidize such people who neglect themselves

[johnebii]

maybe we need to do like the rest of the politicians. just trick the people into thinking we are giving them what they want. problem is most true conservatives are straightforward about principles and won't just pander. we could probably get some things eliminated if we would just resort to trickery like the rest of them, but we don't tend to do that. maybe we should.

[llapole]

i agree, but it's not going away so we need to try to make it as least bad as possible. what happened when goldwater ran against medicare? he was destroyed. ron paul runs against it and no one votes for him(well, i did). americans love entitlements so us conservatives need to work to minimize their harm. i think thats what this video is really saying.