It’s Medicare open enrollment season for seniors and other eligible patients looking to cover their healthcare needs at an affordable cost. This should be an easy and safe process. Instead, the proliferation of privately managed for-profit plans spurred by two decades of misguided public policy has made it costly, confusing, and harmful.
Read this letter to the editor to find out more about the pitfalls of publicly subsidized, privately managed Medicare Advantage plans.
And this report from Physicians for a National Health Program, Taking Advantage, shares moving video testimonials from patients whose private plans have let them down.
The experiment has failed. It’s time to pass public Medicare for All. One great, affordable lifelong plan. Everybody in, nobody out.