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Matthew Yglesias

While slashing customer support for Social Security they are making one of the biggest known sources of government waste even more wasteful because a Medicare Advantage lobbyist is running health care at OMB.

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Anna Wilde Mathews

@annawmathews

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Privately run Medicare Advantage plans will get a sizable payment bump from the federal government, thanks to a 5.06% increase announced by the Trump administration Monday wsj.com/health/healthc via @WSJ

1:39 PM · Apr 7, 2025

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Matthew Yglesias

It’s about politics, not economics.

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James Chanos

@RealJimChanos

Mar 16

This. If DOGE doesn’t go after the cesspool that is Medicare Advantage then you know it’s about politics, not economics. x.com/mattyglesias/s…

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Medicare Advantage’s 5.06% payment boost is peak bureaucratic bloat. Taxpayers fund this while real healthcare needs like hospital price transparency and drug cost reforms get sidelined. The problem isn’t just the cash grab—it’s letting industry lobbyists dictate policy. When

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how would abolishing Advantage and folding it back into A and B affect the budget deficit? gonna guess it would reduce it substantially

KathleenFrances

@Kathlee71013772

I hated my MA through Humana. I switched back to regular Medicare after a year. Advantage is such a ripoff.

ꜱᴛᴀʀᴛᴜᴘ ᴅᴀᴇᴍᴏɴ, ᴘʜᴅ, ᴏʙᴇ

This is lunacy levels of grift.

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