One of the biggest lies told by the left about Medicare is that Original Medicare is public but that Part C Medicare Advantage health plans are private. This lie is part of the looney left's decades-long efforts to first stall the creation of Medicare Part C and -- for the last 15 years -- to repeal Part C. It's rubbish.
The Republican-Party-sponsored and passed-into-law Part C (but signed by President Clinton and more or less conceived by Democratic goo goos at the Urban Institute) is just as public as Original Democratic-Pary-LBJ Medicare Parts A and B.
Conversely -- as shown in the image above -- Original Democratic-Pary-LBJ Medicare Parts A and B is just as private as Part C. Those "companies" that the Medicare and You booklet tell you to appeal to are insurance companies.
All Parts of Medicare are paid for with government trust fund money (that is, they are public) and all Parts of Medicare are administered by private insurance companies (and therefore are private).
The private vs. public discussion is all about screwing seniors, something the Senior Haters in the looney left can not get enough of.
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