Health

Medicare Advantage is a trojan horse. It’s a vehicle to lure people in with low/no cost plans and tasty extras. Once they snare the lion’s share of citizens desperate for affordable healthcare, they will make a case for forcing the rest of us into for-profit plans. That’s when they’ll lower the boom and start denying coverage and eliminating the extras. It’s hard for me to understand why so many people are willing to put the future of national healthcare in the hands of private insurance executives and their shareholders.