Angela G on Nostr: All #MedicareAdvantage does is put money in the hands of #Insurance companies. There ...
All #MedicareAdvantage does is put money in the hands of #Insurance companies. There is no cost savings to elders. (See my prior posts on how MA costs more for #taxpayers.)
From MedPage -- Even though almost all Medicare Advantage (MA) plans boast coverage of supplemental benefits (dental, vision, and hearing) enrollees didn't get more care, and they spent just as much out of pocket as those with traditional #medicare a cross-sectional study showed. MA and traditional Medicare enrollees had "virtually identical" rates of using hearing aids (13.4% and 13.2%), wearing eyeglasses (78% and 76.8%), and having an eye exam in the past year (53.5% and 53.6%), according to Christopher Cai, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and colleagues.
From MedPage -- Even though almost all Medicare Advantage (MA) plans boast coverage of supplemental benefits (dental, vision, and hearing) enrollees didn't get more care, and they spent just as much out of pocket as those with traditional #medicare a cross-sectional study showed. MA and traditional Medicare enrollees had "virtually identical" rates of using hearing aids (13.4% and 13.2%), wearing eyeglasses (78% and 76.8%), and having an eye exam in the past year (53.5% and 53.6%), according to Christopher Cai, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and colleagues.