Dr. Oz Is Coming For Your Medicare

Let's just call it what it is: Medicare DIS-Advantage. This has been a private insurance boondoggle since George W. Bush began pushing Medicare "Advantage" plans. Now more people are enrolled in these plans than in Original Medicare, causing everyone in Original Medicare to pay more--but we get more, so far, at least, as Medicare-madated covered services ARE covered under Original Medicare and are not denied. When Oz worms his slimy way into office, no doubt lying through his teeth like the rest of the trump turbo-capitalist cabinet candidate thugs, things will go sideways. And the mission of Original Medicare will lie in tatters, thanks to the "efficiencies" of the so-called free market--i.e., shoveling hundreds of billions of government dollars to private corporations and particularly their millionaire and billionaire shareholders in overpayments. Yeah. We already have among the very worst healthcare systems in the world--why not ruin the only decent part of it still standing? When there's filthy money to be made, screw the will of the knowing public! And, ultimately, screw the unknowing customers of Medicare "Advantage" plans. We'll all rue the day they sold out for some come-on introductory benefits that, if Medicare didn't have to pay the billions in overpayments, we would all have in Original Medicare--or could have, should there exist any interest in any true advantages to the American taxpaying public. If Oz is confirmed, we can kiss Original Medicare goodbye--and fall prey to privatized insurance.