There is one part of the Democratic Party party line that is sacrosanct from President Obama through all the Democrats (and unfortunately most stupid Republicans) in Congress to the left-wing goo goos in academia to the totally biased lefty journolisters in the press to the left-wing ideologues in MedPAC to the left-wing political appointees that run Medicare all the way down to the left wing camp followers that give Medicare advice out at the local senior center.
That party line is that the public Part C Medicare Advantage health plan program is "private."
Unfortunately someone forgot to the tell some poor bastard at the United States Census Bureau, which just put out the results from its annual surveys (yes, surveys plural--this is the U.S. government) on health care insurance. This poor bastard redesigned1 the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement CPS ASEC) and put Medicare Advantage in the Public column (see image), where it belongs despite what Obama, all those Congresspeople, goo goos, academics, journalists and Navigators say.
1Ironically the CPS ASEC re-design was done to beef up the Obamacare numbers.
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