Privatizing and Castrating Medicare slice by slice

2 12 2021

The thousands of lobbyists in Washington working for private companies have already managed over the years to create a private money-grabbing industry to entice seniors to essentially trade-in (termed Advantage) their Medicare with private-insurance taking over from and making gobs of money off of Medicare. By manipulating Congress and the two major parties they have created a medical system that is purposefully designed to be so confusing even doctors and professionals can’t figure out the complex web of ins and outs. The result is that the U.S. has the most convoluted health care system which does not even deliver the best of care even though the costs are considerably greater than other advanced countries.

Now this hodge-podge of for-profit companies and their army of lobbyist are trying to further enrich themselves and further undermine Medicare; so much so that even doctors are organizing to try to stop them. Read this article –https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/11/30/congress-asleep-switch-biden-continues-trump-era-ploy-privatize-medicare


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