>>With Advantage plans, Medicare pays the insurance company
the average amount they would otherwise spend on someone enrolled
in traditional >>Medicare, plus some additional funding.? So
it actually costs Medicare more for
those who enroll in Advantage plans. If everyone enrolled in
>>Advantage plans, it would bankrupt Medicare that much
sooner.? So Medicare has no motivation to dump everyone.
This was my understanding, thats how the policy's are created.
The insures take the policy cost and compare how much it would
cost with what Medicare is paying, the difference is their
premium. The problem here for the insurance companies is how to
keep the premiums low enough for the bonus stuff they offer to be
attractive.
++Mark.
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