Reply #17: If you cut payments to the Medicare Advantage you are [View All]

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in effect cutting Medicare for those enrolled in those plans. If you cut payments to the providers Medicare recipients are going to have to pay more for their Medicare supplement insurance or even more providers will just stop taking Medicare patients. So saying we are only cutting the payments to the providers is just plain BS. Medicare Advantage had anything to do with the donut hole, that was something included in the Bush prescription plan from what I understand. I do know one thing for sure our union told us our retirees Medicare supplement premium that we pay is going to increase $50 to $100 a month next year, it is currently $98 so that is about a 50% to 100% increase.