Government is beginning to crack down on Medicare Advantage fraud

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Yes, figuring out exactly what a Medicare person should sign up

for is hideously complicated. This year, as every year since I went on Medicare, I am getting a lot of mail, trying to persuade me to switch to another plan. It really should be a lot simpler.

But I'm heartily sick of those here who simply trash all Advantage Plans without seeing what they actually offer. My plan doesn't cost me anything extra, and I've found it to be better than any health care plan I ever had prior to Medicare. Again, I point to my heart attack nearly two years ago, and the small amount I paid out of pocket for my stent and hospitilazation. If I'd simply been on original Medicare I'd have paid vastly thousands more.

The reality is that in this country health care is needlessly and unendingly complicated. Unlike almost everywhere else. A huge problem is that those in Congress, and even those who simply work for the federal government, have excellent coverage and assume everyone else has the same. Alas, we don't.