Trump just launched a stealth attack on seniors' health care

Published 2 hours ago
on October 5, 2019

By Independent Media Institute
- Commentary

Watch out, older Americans and people with disabilities! President Trump just announced a plan to give corporate health insurers more control over your health care. His new executive order calls for “market-based” pricing, which would drive up costs for everyone with Medicare, eviscerate traditional Medicare, and steer more people into for-profit “Medicare Advantage” plans.

Seema Verma, the Trump appointee who heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), may not have warned Trump about the slew of government audits revealing that many Medicare Advantage plans pose “an imminent and serious risk to the health of… enrollees.” They also overcharge taxpayers to the tune of $10 billion a year.

In the last few years alone, CMS’ limited audits have highlighted major issues with Medicare Advantage plans. Reports from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and Government Accountability Office (GAO) have underscored these issues. They have recommended that CMS increase its oversight of Medicare Advantage plans and its enforcement efforts.

A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report indicates that the problems with Medicare Advantage may be even more far-reaching than the government audits indicate. The Medicare Advantage plans have failed to turn over reliable and complete claims data, as required by law. Without this data, it’s not possible to know whether they are covering the health care services they are paid to provide or to oversee them to the extent necessary.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/trump-just-launched-a-stealth-attack-on-seniors-health-care/

And if one reads the bait and switch executive order He must get his rocks off by this wording at the very beginning..............(By the authority vested in me) and how the person over at the CMS is as corrupts as the asshole admitting guilt in plain site in the white house, me thinks it is time to sue United Health Care, Aetna and others about their Medicare advantage bait and switch plans and over charging seniors 10 billion, out of there hard earned benefit.........................so for everyone about to get on Medicare and those of us that are on our plan that we paid for read the assholes..............bait and switch, using taxpayer dollars stationary to announce his bait and switch........................................

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-protecting-improving-medicare-nations-seniors/

Impeachment cannot get here fast enough..................