Obama wants to limit Medicare Advantage

Seniors like your Medicare Advantage Plan? Obama hates it!

Re-election of Obama will result in gutting of seniors’ Medicare Advantage programs.

Medicare Advantage plans, very popular with seniors, allow seniors to escape traditional Medicare and choose commercial plans. The entire point of Medicare Advantage is not to subject it to government regulatory fine tuning. Seniors who sign up for Medicare Advantage basically take a voucher and have the run of about 3,300 different plans by 175 different insurance companies, with a diversity of benefits, premiums, and cost sharing. The incentive for Medicare advantage insurers to improve quality is competition, the need for insurers to acquire and retain seniors as customers, and pay for performance bonuses. The Medicare advantage model is a “cousin” of Republican Rep. Paul Ryan’s Medicare reform model.

Obama and his Marxists hate such market flexibility. They view it as a threat to government control, a keystone of socialism. Obamacare slashes 145 billion from Medicare Advantage, to help finance itself. These cuts were to happen in 2012 but in a purely pre-election political smoke and mirrors “demonstration project,” which the Government Accounting Office says “precludes a credible evaluation,” 71 percent of the cuts were delayed until after the November election and will take place in 2013, when if re-elected Obama will gut Medicare Advantage.

Seniors with Medicare Advantage plans will then see many fewer insurers, less plans, fewer benefits along with substantially higher premiums and cost sharing. It is another indirect redistribution of wealth by Obama and would take from seniors Medicare Advantage and give to universal government-controlled Obamacare.

So Medicare Advantage seniors, you know what to do this November! Vote, and vote out Obama and his Marxist socialists. Romney and a Republican House and Senate will repeal Obamacare and save your Medicare Advantage. It and Paul Ryan’s Medicare reform model are very similar.

PHIL POUTRÉ

Cocolalla