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CBOEtrader says

Medicare advantage typically covers all bases in one policy BUT is limited to a carriers network, which often is quite smaller than the general Medicare network. Social security will pay advantage carriers for covering their responsibility AND the client will cover some of the premium as well.

Exactly what I said. Medicare is paying the carriers. The premiums are a small part of what is paid out.

CBOEtrader says

Carriers such as Blue Cross, Aetna, Humana, Scott and White, etc... make a huge amount of money selling Medicare plans and they spend an enormous amount on advertising and marketing to grow their customer base.

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Which makes my point exactly, although I still believe the amounts spent on capturing medicare advantage patients is small compared to what is spent capturing patients in private insurance. . Huge amounts are expended that have nothing to do with caring for people, but just to move the money around and provide profits every step of the way..

CBOEtrader says

Medical insurance makes finance look like and fair business by comparison. The govt regulations are literally transferring hundreds of billions per year from the average person to the insurance companies and medical care providers. It's fucking sickening... but I do make a lot of money doing it :)

Those would be the regulations written by industry lobbyists at the behest of libertarian politicians bought and paid for by the industry because everyone knows that free market health insurance is so much cheaper than government programs. In any other country that would be considered bribery and corruption. In the US it0 is called political free speech. Trust me the rest of the world is laughing at this.

You just trumped your own free market ace you know.

How is that different from how this government collects taxes?

Framework is already in place.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

If anything fucks with the gravy train, the doctors will have only one choice: getting their patients PIN numbers at gun point and shooting them after emptying their bank accounts. Libby fucks have no clue.