{"id":14886,"date":"2020-01-02T09:39:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T14:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14886"},"modified":"2020-01-02T09:41:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T14:41:45","slug":"is-medicare-advantage-plans-extra-benefits-making-it-difficult-for-presidential-candidates-to-sell-m4a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14886","title":{"rendered":"Is Medicare Advantage plans extra benefits making it difficult for Presidential candidates to sell M4A?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans surpassed 22 million, which is 35 percent of total Medicare beneficiaries and it\u2019s expected to reach 24 million for the 2020 plan year, it\u2019s expected to make it more difficult on Presidential candidates pushing single payer version of \u201cMedicare for All\u201d.\u00a0 Medicare Advantage plans contract with the federal government to provide extra benefits and services to seniors and this year these insurers have been selling perhaps their richest benefit packages thanks to a new rules that allow the plans to offer more benefits to seniors. Read article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucejapsen\/2020\/01\/01\/medicare-for-all-could-die-in-2020-as-insurers-add-seniors\/#676300025e01\"> here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/seniors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11923\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/seniors-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/seniors-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/seniors.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans surpassed 22 million, which is 35 percent of total Medicare beneficiaries and it\u2019s expected to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-m4a-and-public-option-plans","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14889,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886\/revisions\/14889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}