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Not all advantage plans are terrible.
My husband's heart attack at age 66 on straight Medicare cost us thousands in out of pocket costs and wiped out our retirement savings. We switched to an advantage plan run by our regional hospital system. All my meds, biopsies, and procedures have had low or no co-pays. Plus it has vision and routine dental.
Folks need to shop carefully, for sure. But our current advantage plan would have saved us a lot of money.
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I rejected a Medicare advantage plan. They love painting how rosy they are but I call them garbage plans because they love to deny and some don’t cover existing conditions.
The monthly premiums may be sky high depending on the plan you get. I pay $175.00 Medicare coverage for everything. No deductibles and no copay. Includes medication for free. I went to United once and lasted a month. I went back to where I was getting superior medical treatment.
My card says on it “ Member can not to be charged” including copays and deductibles. I’m sorry but I call advantage plans UN advantage plans. Bottom line is their shareholders
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Absolutely! Straight Medicare is not enough. When I retired at age 70, I consulted the billing specialists at my cancer center as well as the medical teaching hospital where I get a lot of my specialty services. For my particular situation, they advised against advantage plans and encouraged us to look at Medicare supplementary plans. What they told me at the time is that if you have a chronic or catastrophic illness, the supplemental policies are better because the advantage plans don’t always pay some of the specialty services.
I think you’re absolutely right that people need to investigate and see what is best for their particular circumstances. It could be for many people advantage plans will serve them well.