The Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper sprinkled its coverage of an intensifying fight over Medicare with ads purchased by an organization that promotes private Medicare Advantage plans.
last week, "Medicare Advantage plans are popular and they are rapidly crowding out public Medicare" because they provide coverage that traditional Medicare doesn't, including hearing, dental, and vision.according to"Despite the extra coverage ostensibly provided, studies have found that Medicare Advantage plans are more profitable than most other health insurance industry products, because of the opportunities they provide to game the system," Kuttner noted.
"Partial privatization insidiously leads to more privatization, leaving government to pay the added expense," he added. "Despite the promises of greater efficiency, it doesn't save costs but adds costs, as more money goes to industry middlemen and government has to spend more on monitoring... Medicare for All doesn't work if it includes privatized Medicare Advantage. Best to keep public programs public.
But the newspaper's ostensibly neutral, both-sides coverage of the high-stakes healthcare fight was interspersed with ads purchased by the Coalition for Medicare Choices, an innocuously named organization that serves as a front group for the private insurance industry's powerful lobbying group, America's Health Insurance Plans .
as a "national grassroots organization" while acknowledging—in small font at the bottom of its website—that it's "powered by AHIP."'s newsletter features a senior accompanied by text that reads, "Don't Cut My Care." The sidebar ad makes clear that the Coalition for Medicare Choices is concerned not about traditional Medicare, but about the finances of Medicare Advantage—a privately run program funded by the federal government.
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