{"id":19449,"date":"2022-01-31T08:45:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T13:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19449"},"modified":"2022-01-31T08:46:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T13:46:01","slug":"medicare-advantage-brings-healthcare-costs-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19449","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Advantage brings healthcare costs down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Medicare Advantage Plans, sometimes called \u201cPart C\u201d or \u201cMA Plans,\u201d are offered by Medicare-approved private companies that must follow the rules set by Medicare. Currently, 28.5 million seniors are enrolled in Medicare Advantage health plans. Yes, \u201cit\u2019s true that the government spent $321 more for each Medicare Advantage enrollee in 2019; however, if every senior with Advantage had been enrolled in traditional Medicare, the government could have saved a whopping $7 billion\u2014less than 1 percent of overall Medicare spending.\u201d Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/sallypipes\/2022\/01\/31\/medicare-advantage-gives-seniors-an-advantage\/?sh=6927b3e52535\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/sallypipes\/2022\/01\/31\/medicare-advantage-gives-seniors-an-advantage\/?sh=6927b3e52535\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"141\" class=\"wp-image-17863\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-462052741medicare-healthcare-insurance.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-462052741medicare-healthcare-insurance.jpg 1219w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-462052741medicare-healthcare-insurance-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-462052741medicare-healthcare-insurance-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-462052741medicare-healthcare-insurance-1024x723.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><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>Medicare Advantage Plans, sometimes called \u201cPart C\u201d or \u201cMA Plans,\u201d are offered by Medicare-approved private companies that must follow the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19449","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=19449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19450,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19449\/revisions\/19450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}