Comments on: Cutting Medicare Advantage is not the change we need

By: Jayhuck

Jayhuck — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:38:30 +0000

I find it interesting and sometimes amusing that some Americans don’t want government managed care then turn around and fight against attempts to undermine their medicaid and medicare benefits! I don’t get it!

By: Denver Todd

Denver Todd — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:00:30 +0000

Congrats on enjoying the Advantage. I don’t know much abou it though. My father is enrolled in Kaiser, the little I know about which makes me mad at every turn. Imagine a bureaucratic nightmare that an ailing senior must navigate on his own, one which has gatekeepers at every corner are incented with keeping people away, and you get the picture. This is the future of US healthcare if Obama has his way.

I’ll tell you a wonderful system here in Denver, Total Longtern Care. They pick up the seniors by van in the morning, treat their medical conditions, feed them lunch, and bring them home. TLC is part of the Pace program, and I hear there are similar organizations in every state. The only sad thing is that this program is limited to those who are destitute. If only this were the standard by which all senior care was based.

By: Pathia

Pathia — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:37:25 +0000

My grandparents use medicare, medicare advantage, and then two supplemental insurance programs ontop of it, and still get huge bills now and then. (Expensive non-fatal medical conditions seem to run in the family!).

FOUR instances of basically the same thing, slightly different at the same time seems incredibly inefficient.