Fake News from MedPac on Medicare Advantage Needs to Be Corrected, Part 2
Health Care Blog August 29, 2024
Special Needs Plans Change Lives for The Lowest Income and Highest Need Patients
The people who benefit the most from Medicare Advantage are clearly the very low-income and high health-need people who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid as programs and who enroll as members in the Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plan programs.
There clearly aren’t any other programs existing in our country that do more good for large numbers of needing people than the Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans do for those members.
Those people with that dual eligibility are in major need for care.
We have millions of retirees who are eligible for both programs who have gone through years of inequities, inadequacies, and deficiencies relative to...