Holy shit. Be prepared for the consumer to get screwed on your healthcare advantage programs.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

84. As a pharmacy tech...

I can attest that Advantage plans are BULLSHIT. They cover fewer and fewer things and now increasing numbers of providers are refusing to take patients with Advantage plans.

Medicare itself has a lot of issues, most notably that you can’t use copay cards or get patient assistance, but the Advantage plans have always been a scam. Just wait until you. need some drug that’s not even cutting edge but costs $40-80K a MONTH and your insurance denies it.

Remember when Obama was talking up healthcare based on our income? I recall the calculator floating around to convince us of how wonderful it was going to be, that you plugged in your income and it declared your premium would be $X (mine was like $5/mo for me and two kids). Then at the last minute, he sold us out to private insurors. That’s what spawned shit like Medicare Advantage.

When I hear people crow about how we lead first-world countries, I see red. We are at the BOTTOM of that list because we’re a damned oligarchy and politicians are largely riding the gravy train instead of fighting for US. That fake lure of “healthcare for all” is at the top of the list of things they’ve screwed us on.