…being told a service we already received isn’t covered after all – the great bait and switch the health insurance industry is allowed to do all the time, leaving so…
Docs Come to D.C. to Protest Medicare’s Direct Contracting Program
Would be the end of traditional Medicare, they say
…up for traditional Medicare,” she said at the rally. “This is an unacceptable ‘bait and switch’ that presents real threats to people enrolled and to the Medicare program overall. With…
Medicare Trustees Report: Part B premiums a threat to solidarity
…already witnesses a bait and switch operation in which individuals are enticed into private Medicare Advantage plans not realizing that the intent is to eventually shift to a defined contribution…
Which way for Trump and progressives on pharmaceutical reform?
…a populist course on drug prices once in office? It seemed unlikely then. But now, it seems pretty clear that the promise was a bait-and-switch: his new website does not…
Wrong Prescription?
…“the worst thing that has happened to this nation since slavery.” A lack of clarity on both sides — and some deliberate bait-and-switch tactics — dogged the very creation of…
To Win ‘Medicare for All,’ First Reclaim Medicare From Profiteers
If we want to build on the promise of Medicare, then we’re going to have to grapple directly with the power of corporate health insurance: That starts with taking on the so-called “Medicare Advantage” program.
…classic bait and switch. Eliminating the need to purchase Medigap would level the playing field and allow everybody to remain in Traditional Medicare. Well, not everybody—but that’s our ultimate goal….
Retirees demand Adams drop Medicare appeals
Hundreds rallied Monday ahead of yet more court hearings
…appeals to court cases regarding Medicare and a copay issue, the president of the New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees, Marianne Pizzitola, said. Adams should also publicly state…
Testimony Of Wendell Potter and Dr. Linda Peeno
Between You and Your Doctor: the Private Health Insurance Bureaucracy
…absurdity of this line of argument. America has some of the finest public universities in the world—this isn’t socialism or radical. And, modern-day Americans rely on the “public option” of…
Time to play the single-payer card
…the whole thing through Congress intact, including the public option. This is a strategy for failure. The public option will be the part that gets compromised out. Many prominent progressives…
Medicare-for-All versus public plan buy-in proposals
Medicare-for-All and Public Plan Buy-In Proposals: Overview and Key Issues
…health insurance program for all U.S. residents, replacing virtually all other sources of public and private insurance (Medicare-for-All), to more incremental approaches that would create a new public plan option,…
Grayson’s “Public Option Act” or “Medicare You Can Buy Into Act”
…legislation should include the option of purchasing a government-sponsored plan through the proposed insurance exchanges – the so-called “public option.” Since Congressman Alan Grayson introduced the “Public Option Act” or…
Two-thirds of Americans support Medicare-for-all (#1 of 6)
…“public option”: The question most frequently asked by progressive activists at last week’s America’s Future Now conference was this: We hear Obama and congressional Democrats talking about a public health…
