What does HCR mean for Medicare?

[Lionel Mandrake]

An LA Times article published this morning seems to imply that the spending cuts apply only to "Medicare Advantage" plans. Does anybody know if this is true?

[democrat_patriot]

1. Yes, Medicare Advantage is the one effected.

[katmondoo]

2. Medicare Advantage is an HMO stay away from it

[Lionel Mandrake]

4. I did stay away from it.

I decided that the "advantage" was mainly to insurance companies, at the expense of taxpayers.

[shraby]

3. That's okay with me..I already decided Medicare Advantage

was a rip off. It would only pay 80% of the 20% that Medicare doesn't cover and has the "out of area" stickler in it. If I had to have a medigap policy I decided it would have to cover everything that Medicard doesn't, have no deductibles, and have no restrictions on what doctor or hospital I could use. I found one too that wasn't very expensive.

[Lionel Mandrake]

5. You made the right choice. nt

[daa]

6. Not true at all

About 132 Billion of the cuts are freezing Medicare Advantage. The other 350 Billion is "waste fraud and abuse" (or real cuts ot your care).

[Lionel Mandrake]

7. That's what I am afraid of.

Everyone agrees that waste, fraud, and abuse are bad. But can they be surgically removed without killing the patient?