... then try to get us seniors to do its dirty work.
According to the American Healthcare Insurance Provider lobby on January 15, the group is about to run a series of ads between now and the Super Bowl to get all us seniors in a lather about the fact that the Obama administration is taking away the money us seniors' put into the Medicare trust funds for 40 or more years to fund our public Part C Medicare Advantage health plan capitation payments.
Why are the insurers complaining? They don't lose anything. The $200 billion taken from us over the next 10 years go to the insurers as subsidies for Obamacare insurance for non seniors. And this does not count another $800 million taken from us on Part C Medicare and all other Medicare seniors not on Part C in the form of lower hospital, skilled nursing facility, durable medical equipment and other cuts.
Most of this income redistribution from our trust funds was supported by AHIP in 2009 (but to be fair they have always complained about the Medicare Part C effect... but only because that directly affects money with their name on it... not us Medicare beneficiaries' names).
And there is no "Seniors' Coalition."
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