In response to allegations made by the 46th president that former President Donald Trump wants to cut entitlement programs, the Biden administration has completed its plan to eliminate Medicare Advantage.
On Monday, the Biden administration will reduce Medicare Advantage plan base payments by.16 percent on average, in defiance of Republican and medical expert opposition. This comes after Biden made contentious changes to the risk-adjusting coding system in an effort to purportedly improve the accuracy of Medicare Advantage payments.
Since many American seniors now rely on Medicare Advantage for their healthcare requirements, Biden’s decision would affect more than half of Medicare members. Experts predict that in 2025, seniors in America participating in Medicare Advantage may suffer a decrease in their supplementary benefits or an increase in cost-sharing of $33 per month.
“President Biden’s team is betting that MA recipients will not know before the election the advantages Biden’s team is causing them to lose come January 2025,” analyst Chris Meekins stated.
As Trump declared to Breitbart News that he would never touch Social Security or Medicare, Biden made the decision to cut back on Medicare Advantage. This contradicts Democratic and Biden’s promises that he will reduce entitlement spending.
Trump said, “I will never do anything that will threaten or harm Social Security or Medicare.” “There is nowhere else we can do it. However, we will not take any action that might harm them.
Ninety percent of Medicare Advantage subscribers were happy with their treatment, according to a Commonwealth Fund report from 2021. This percentage is comparable to that of regular Medicare. Medicare Advantage even performs better than Medicare on 16 key clinical quality criteria, according to research.
Biden formerly supported a measure that would examine and renew programs like Social Security and Medicare once they sunset, as Breitbart News reported:
Moreover, it is possible that Biden overlooked the fact that, back in 1975, as a Delaware senator, he proposed a bill that would have mandated the examination and reauthorization, or lack thereof, of government programs, including Social Security and Medicare. Sen. Rick Scott’s (R-FL) first proposal, which Biden has regularly criticized, is strikingly identical to this one. “We need to start evaluating current initiatives to see if they are still beneficial and if the funding we are providing them with makes sense.” Biden stated when presenting the 1975 legislation, “We have to get rid of the ones that are wasteful.”
Biden’s decision to eliminate Medicare Advantage has Republicans and conservatives inconsolable.
Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) said, “BREAKING: Biden just slashed Medicare payments once more.” Biden’s changes will cost the 2.8 million seniors in Florida who use Medicare Advantage an additional $400 annually. Biden’s attack on seniors is deplorable, and I am doing all in my power to change this awful choice.
“The Biden White House accuses me of trying to reform and save Medicare, while @JoeBiden is actively reducing Medicare for 33 million seniors,” stated Representative Kevin Hern (R-OK), the chairman of the Republican Study Committee (RSC).
Adam Brandon, president of FreedomWorks, said in a statement:
“The Biden administration persisted in criticizing Medicare Advantage, the private sector alternative for seniors on Medicare, yesterday. In two years, this is the second cut. Seniors will pay an additional $33 a month as a result of the most recent round of cutbacks. For a group of people who are mostly on fixed incomes but are still suffering from severe inflation, that is a $396 annual rate hike. 33 million seniors, or more than 50% of the senior population, choose Medicare Advantage over standard Medicare because it is so well-liked and popular. I find it astounding that the government is going after one of our elders’ most well-liked programs. For most Democrats, it seems uncharacteristic to remove a program as popular as Medicare Advantage unless doing so is a necessary first step toward achieving their ultimate objective of universal healthcare. Democrats have made it clear that they want a single-payer, universal Medicare-style system. Maybe Medicare Advantage and its 33 million members are just byproducts of the process.”
“Biden is eliminating Medicare Advantage coverage for 33 million Americans—and hoping they do not realize it until after the November election,” stated Heritage Action in a statement. The process of reducing benefits for seniors is as follows.
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