United States Seniors: More PBS Propaganda about Medicare to Confuse You

The United States government funded Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) had been running a series of very misleading Medicare-advice articles on its web site since the beginning of the so-called Medicare open enrollment period on October 15. A few days ago I summarized a list of the important facts that the PBS articles leave out. Here is a short list of the series' major errors or misleading statements:

1. Open enrollment only applies to Parts  C and D of Medicare, not necessarily to Medigap and probably not to people on group retiree plans.
2. It is not true as PBS and the rest of the left-wing media outlets participating in the Democratic Party's War on Seniors constantly say that seniors are too stupid or lazy to make "any changes to their coverage." Most people eligible to make changes do not because of what insurance their doctor takes or the fact they love AARP or because they have always had Blue Cross or because they don't like CVS or whatever—it’s a free country).
3. It is not correct that "Behavioral research shows that the explosion of Medicare Advantage and prescription drug plans, beginning in 2006" caused any particular problem for seniors in general. Both Medicare-Advantage like managed Medicare plans and Medicare-oriented drug coverage have been around for 40 years; there was no particular explosion of these types of plans in 2006.
4. There are errors in the PBS series description of every Part of Medicare and I will cover those errors in another blog post.

I should make it clear that this is part of a constant barrage of bad Medicare advice from the left. the PBS guy is just a foot soldier. The Democratic Party is running the war.