{"id":25813,"date":"2026-04-08T08:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25813"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:51:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:51:26","slug":"the-bigger-picture-for-medicare-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25813","title":{"rendered":"The bigger picture for Medicare Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Medicare Advantage has been around since 1997, when it was established by the Balanced Budget Act. Initially called &#8220;Medicare Choice,&#8221; it was renamed to Medicare Advantage in 2003. By 2025, enrollment has reached more than 34 million; however, in 2026, Medicare Advantage plans have left 3 million seniors without a plan. Damilola Esebame, writing for The Street, reports that as options are shrinking for many seniors, what alternatives are available to them? Read Mr. Esebame\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/retirement\/medicare-advantage-left-3-million-seniors-without-a-plan-and-options-are-shrinking\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/retirement\/medicare-advantage-left-3-million-seniors-without-a-plan-and-options-are-shrinking\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare Advantage has been around since 1997, when it was established by the Balanced Budget Act. Initially called &#8220;Medicare Choice,&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6,9,15],"tags":[80,385,238,61,62,65,94],"class_list":["post-25813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25813","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=25813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25814,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25813\/revisions\/25814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}