KevinMD December 4, 2022
Despite the aggressive marketing, Medicare Advantage plans offer little benefit for poor and vulnerable patients.
Consider my patient C, who was in pain from her knee arthritis. She was often in pain, but now her new pain medication helped her less than her previous one. She also wanted her old asthma inhaler back as the new one was harder to use. We had changed all her medications since her new Medicare Advantage insurance plan’s formulary (list of medications covered by a plan) was different. Patient W, with recently treated throat cancer, had to leave the longtime doctor he liked to a practice that worked with his new Medicare Advantage plan. There are countless more stories.
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