4sight Health December 27, 2023
If you live in the Upper Plains, Midwest or Northeast, you worry about frozen pipes during the winter. That’s when water inside a pipe freezes, expands and cracks the pipe wide open to gush out until you notice it pouring from your ceiling or into your semi-finished basement.
In my neighborhood, you know whose pipes burst when you see big pieces of torn-up carpet on the curb waiting for the garbage truck. Many plumbers make a comfortable living fixing or replacing frozen pipes in the winter.
The image of water gushing uncontrollably from a burst pipe in the winter came to mind when I looked up the latest national health expenditure figures for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. Formerly referred to...