Did you know Medicare Advantage is the most popular health plan in the United States? It is, and we believe that extending it to everyone will lower our National Healthcare GDP by $1.3 Trillion to 12% by eliminating just half of our chronic illness. 

A Trump Medicare-Advantage-For-All plan is the way to go, as the Democrats are focusing on Medicare for All, which will bankrupt us. We desperately need health reform. We need democrats and republicans to come together and think about the health of the American people. 

Supporting Medicare Advantage is an obvious bipartisan solution to our problems! But, we can’t get this program implemented because the political parties are too polarized and they can’t agree on anything! The only way we are going to stop the bleeding and start saving lives is with a change of the majority party in the House of Representatives! This is what President Trump has been saying all along, “If the Republicans take back the House, keep the Senate, keep the presidency – we’re going to have a fantastic plan,” He wants the Republican Party to be the party of Health Care. We have, reluctantly, come to the conclusion that he is absolutely right. 

We Americans must wake up to the fact that we are collectively being cheated. We need to clean House. Here are some reasons why we need a Trump Medicare Advantage Plan: 

• 30 Million Americans has no health insurance in 2019.  
• Old Age Survivors and Disability Insurance (Social Security) Trustees project that by the year 2026 the Medicare Trust Fund for 59.8 Million retired Americans will be 100% GONE!  
• The United States is the Number One national spender on healthcare on the planet. Yet, the World Health Organization says the United States is only 37th in health quality.  
• The Kaiser Family Foundation – Perterson Partnership recently posted the fact that the United States has 63% more neonatal deaths and 90% more postnatal deaths than other comparable countries around the world.  
• : The National Institute of Aging recently uncovered the fact that all Americans aged 25 – 64 have increased rates of death from ALL causes.  

• The National Institutes of Health says 2 out of 3 Americans are currently overweight and the CDC reports 40% of the U.S. population, approximately 124.4 Million Americans are obese! The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health released a study Decmber 18, 2019 projecting the total obesity will increase to 50% (about a quarter of which will be severe obesity) by 2030.  
• Ninety percent (90%)of the U.S. National Health Care GDP (90% = $3.285 Trillion Dollars in 2018) is spent on the treatment of chronic illness.  
• In 2018, the Unites States National Health Care – GDP of $3.65 Trillion Dollars was 18% of our total GDP. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) expects that to increase by 5.5% annually through 2030, at which time our over age 65 population will have almost doubled.  
• It has been clearly demonstrated by the cost estimates of Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren that their Medicare for All proposals will create a financial burden on the American people that will ultimately deprive Medicare beneficiaries of the health insurance plans they have today.  
• On December 18, 2019, a federal Appeals Court recently ruled Obamacare’s ‘individual mandate’ is unconstitutional, but other parts of the law still require further legal review. We need to get behind a viable bipartisan alternative.  

We believe a Trump Medicare Advantage Plan For All is the answer. We must reduce the cost of health care by demanding that the federal government help us improve our health, well-being, and productivity. We are the only ones that can be responsible for our health.  

Join Us!  

To support and join this movement, you can download our Membership Application and complete it with your contact information and send it to us with your financial support or just complete the Pay Pal Credit card authorization on Become A Supporter page on our web site. 

For more information on the Medicare-Advantage-For-All plan and the movement, visit our Medicare-Advantage-For-All plan page, call us at 1-888-683-3719 or email us at: contact@medicare-advantage-for-all.com. 

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In 2018, the Milken Institute Study documented that obesity is by far the greatest risk factor contributing to the burden of chronic disease in the United States. The prevalence of obesity in the U.S. population has increased steadily since the 1960s. President John F. Kennedy wrote Sports Illustrated article back in 1960 complaining that American’s were getting soft. At that time, less than 15% of Americans were obese. In the last 50 years, the rate of obesity has increased by 300%.  

Today, 66% of Americans are overweight (meaning that their Body Mass Index (BMI) is 30 or above).  According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), nearly 40 % (124.4 million) Americans are obese. Health and Human Services (HHS) projects that without making any changes by 2030, half of all adults in the United States will be obese. Currently, one out of every five children between the ages of six and 19 is obese. Overweight adolescents have a 70% greater chance of becoming overweight or obese adults.  

In 2018, HHS estimated that obesity alone cost the United States twenty 21% of our total health care costs equaling $344 Billion Dollars. 

According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Survey in 2013 -2014, two out of every three adults (66%) were considered overweight. In 2015, the chronic illnesses that were directly related to our being overweight accounted for over 47.1% of the total cost of chronic diseases in the United States. In 2015, the Partnership for Chronic Disease (PFCD) estimated that chronic disease was responsible for $480.7 billion of direct health care costs plus $1.24 trillion of indirect costs related to the loss of productivity.  

HHS claims that failing to meet the suggested levels of aerobic physical activity adds nearly $117 billion in annual health-care costs and contributes to 10 percent of all premature mortality.  

In 2015, 30.8 million Americans suffered from three or more chronic illnesses. By 2030, it is estimated that number will increase to 83.4 million people in the United States. By 2030, the Milken Institute estimates that seven chronic diseases will have a total (direct and indirect) economic impact of $4.2 Trillion in treatment costs and reduced economic output.  

When asked why the American health care system cost so much, Patrick Massey, an informed author in an Op-Ed that appeared in a National Health Institutes publication wrote, “It is because 87% of the total health care expenditure is for the management of the chronic disease. The majority of this expense is for Americans under age 65.” Chronic disease accounts for 81% of all hospital admissions and over 90% of prescription drug costs and 76% of all physician visits. 

We can no longer afford to ignore the seriousness of treating chronic disease in America. To learn more about wellness and chronic illness in America and what we can do visit, Make America Healthy Again.  

We believe President Trump can help make America healthy again. How? By implementing Medicare Advantage for All.  

For more information on the Medicare-Advantage-For-All plan and the movement, visit our Trump Medicare Advantage for All plan page, call us at 1-888-683-3719 or contact our email us at: contact@medicare-advantage-for-all.com. 

To support and join this movement, you can download our Membership Application and complete it with your contact information and send it to us with your financial support or just complete the Pay Pal Credit card authorization on the About and Become A Supporter Pages on our web site. 

Visit our Medicare Advantage for All site to learn more! We re-publish articles and research, notices and alerts addressing the efficacy of Medicare-Advantage-For-All and effectively communicating this information to our primary audiences, which include members of Congress, key congressional staff members, the White House, including policymakers in the executive branch, academics, and D.C. think-tanks, policy wonks, the media and our loyal members. 

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People want to be healthy. As Americans, we don’t accept the fact that the government can take care of our health. WE can take care our own health. But right now, our health care system is failing us, so many Americans are dying unnecessarily. We are being cheated as a nation. We currently spend more than other nations for our healthcare, and we get less back for it. We demand more! 

Our government contributed to this failing healthcare system. No one has been able to create a working health insurance program because both Democrats and Republicans are oblivious to that fact that Americans are dying.  

To change the health care system, we need at least 218 votes in the House of Representatives and 60 votes in the Senate.  Right now, Medicare Advantage has 293 supporters of the current members of the House of Representatives and 60 Senators. These leaders are on record supporting Medicare Advantage! We believe Medicare Advantage is the obvious bipartisan solution to our problems! 

Unfortunately, we can’t get this program implemented because the political parties are polarized, and they can’t agree on anything! The only way for President Trump to start saving lives is to change leadership.  

We need a Republican majority in the House of Representatives! The Democrat Bills before Congress on “Medicare for All” does not have Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer’s support and they are going NOWHERE! The 10-year cost estimate for Senator Bernie Sanders’ program is $32.6 Trillion.  

Trump, speaking at his Kansas Rally in 2018, claimed that if Congress were to enact their “Medicare for All” program today; it would “… eviscerate our beautiful Medicare Advantage Program…”.  

If they pass a universal “Medicare for All” plan, this would be the beginning of the end of the Medicare program as we know it. The Kaiser Family Foundation found that most Americans oppose “Medicare for All” by the wide margin of 60 to 32, if it were to threaten the current Medicare program.  

If you want to change the health care system, you are going to have to fight for a real solution. We can’t keep doing the same things we have been doing. Americans must take more responsibility for their own health and expose political lies. In 2020, we must vote for Republicans, including Donald Trump, who will truly Make America Healthy Again. It is that simple! 

We cannot substantially improve the health of the American people until we establish a health insurance system that really works! Medicare Advantage is a health insurance system that works. We must modernize our Medicare programs by adopting a Trump Medicare Advantage Program! A Trump plan can lower the cost of health care in the United States. But, he can’t do it alone. And, he can not do it without your support.  

For more information on the Medicare-Advantage-For-All plan and the movement, visit our Trump Medicare Advantage for All plan page, call us at 1-888-683-3719 or contact our email us at: contact@medicare-advantage-for-all.com. 

To support and join this movement, you can download our Membership Application and complete it with your contact information and send it to us with your financial support or just complete the Pay Pal Credit card authorization on the About and Become A Supporter Pages on our web site. 

Visit our Medicare Advantage for All site to learn more! We re-publish articles and research, notices and alerts addressing the efficacy of Medicare-Advantage-For-All and effectively communicating this information to our primary audiences, which include members of Congress, key congressional staff members, the White House, including policymakers in the executive branch, academics, and D.C. think-tanks, policy wonks, the media and our loyal members. 

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In America, right now, we need to convince the medical community that they must change their practice patterns to support the prevention of illness and the swift correction of conditions that can be reversed. We need a healthcare CZAR and we would choose Alex Azar, the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.  

 The Medicare for All plan legislation proposed by the Democrats in the House and in the Senate, rely heavily of the “Secretary” to basically implement their ideas for the Medicare for All Plans. Our desire is likewise to let the Secretary do the advance work to define and implement the Trump Medicare Advantage for All plan. 

Azar has done an excellent job working with health care providers and drug companies to disclose their charges and lower the cost of prescription drugs. He is in the process of writing the regulations for hospitals and medical providers to comply with the executive order of transparency. His actions are making health care more accessible and affordable for all Americans.  

We have a crisis in American health care. We have an opioid crisis that is causing unnecessary death and destruction in our society. Our health care system is out of control and threatening the health and well-being of our people and the viability and competitiveness of our economy. The costs involved with the treatment of addiction, our health care, and the national debt level all threaten to sink our nation-state.  

We need to pass a bill authorizing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to act on our behalf, in accordance with the job description and the mission of the Department. We need to give this Department the responsibility to come up with a proposal for Congress that addresses the real needs of the American people and not the egos of personal partisan politicians or the economic interests of our providers, who generally oppose everything that portends to lower their reimbursements.   

The Fifth Edition of the True American dated May 2019 includes the first page of a Draft Bill proposed by “WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES” to the Senate leadership.  The BILL authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to consult with the all of the Departments, Agencies and entities of the federal government and all of the immediately applicable interests of our private health care economic sector in order to devise a plan to extend Medicare Advantage to All Americans. The Secretary is required to recommend the rules and the necessary criteria for a firm and reasonable proposal and time frame for extending the Medicare Advantage to All Americans in an affordable, accessible, universal and feasible fashion. See the Fifth Edition of the True American for more information. 

Secretary Azar recently said, “We can also enhance value through payments in Medicare Advantage, where we want to open up more opportunities for MA Plans …. including creative value-based design arrangements, moving care to the home and the community, and new ways for MA Plans to improve patient’s health over the long term,” He gets it! We must give him the power to design that plan, not just implement it. The economic viability of our nation and the general welfare of our people depend upon this effort. 

We have the skill and the expertise to simultaneously reduce the cost of our health care and our Health Care GDP to a competitive world market level, secure our exceptional and unique health care financing system and improve the health, productivity and insurability of the American people with a properly designed, expertly administered and adequately regulated Trump Medicare Advantage for All program. 

 A Trump-Medicare-Advantage-For-All will be instrumental in making this happen. 

For more information on the Medicare-Advantage-For-All plan and the movement, visit our Trump Medicare Advantage for All plan page, call us at 1-888-683-3719 or contact our email us at: contact@medicare-advantage-for-all.com. 

To support and join this movement, you can download our Membership Application and complete it with your contact information and send it to us with your financial support or just complete the Pay Pal Credit card authorization on the About and Become A Supporter Pages on our web site. 

Visit our Medicare Advantage for All site to learn more! We re-publish articles and research, notices and alerts addressing the efficacy of Medicare-Advantage-For-All and effectively communicating this information to our primary audiences, which include members of Congress, key congressional staff members, the White House, including policymakers in the executive branch, academics, and D.C. think-tanks, policy wonks, the media and our loyal members. 

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Democrats, like Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren support the idea of Medicare for All. The plan is said to drastically reshape the health care system by moving millions of Americans who get insurance through employers into a single-payer plan within two years. This is the democrats’ proposal to fix the market.

The plan will be a single-payer plan that covers everyone and offers comprehensive benefits such as long-term care services. There will be no premiums, deductibles, co-pays, or other out-of-pocket costs. This plan would eliminate all private insurance.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)’s Medicare for All Bill is different than Sanders’ bill because it implements a national health insurance program over a two-year period; With this bill, administrative changes are done within the first year, and by the beginning of the third year, all U.S. residents will be covered by the Medicare for All program.

The bill also creates a Medicare Transition buy-in plan during the two-year period, which will be offered on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces.

It is believed as the federal government radically reforms the healthcare system, that insurance companies may exit existing marketplaces, which would leave patients without plans or increasing premiums. A Medicare for All program would need to be implemented as quickly as possible and it’s best that the president who signs the Medicare for All bill into law is the one who oversees implementation of the new system.

This bill also uses existing policy ideas to tackle increasing prescription drug costs and health care spending, as well a it will create a global budget program to pay “institutional providers” and contain costs.

All the democrat Bills before Congress on “Medicare for all” are popular among the progressive American electorate, but not so popular with several of the Democratic Presidential hopefuls in the 2020 election campaign. Unfortunately, the 10-year cost estimate for Senator Bernie Sander’s program is $32.6 trillion and Elizabeth Warren estimates her plan will cost $52 trillion. President Donald Trump, speaking at his Kansas Rally in 2018, claimed that if Congress were to enact the “Medicare 4 all” program today, it would “… eviscerate our beautiful Medicare Advantage Program…”.

A universal Medicare For All plan would certainly be the beginning of the end of the Medicare program as we know it, for the almost 60 Million voting seniors enrolled.

Since Medicare Advantage is the most popular health plan in the United States, expanding it for All Americans (MAA) should be more popular solution. MAA could also reduce our National Health Care (NHC)-GDP by $1.3 trillion, to 12% of total GDP, by reducing or eliminating just half of our chronic illness. And, that would be just the beginning.

We need to pass Medicare Advantage For All with an integrated value-based Wellness and Well Being program. And then, we need to use MAA as a catalyst for a national effort to reduce our NHC-GDP to the lowest level of all the developed nations of the world.

Medicare is too expensive, encourages extraordinary spending and needs to be modernized. Extending it, the way the Democrats are proposing, will make it impossible for the United States to ever achieve a competitive NHC-GDP.

For more information on the Medicare-Advantage-For-All plan and the movement, visit our Medicare-Advantage-For-All plan page, call us at 1-888-683-3719 or email us at: contact@medicare-advantage-for-all.com.

To support and join this movement, you can download our Membership Application and complete it with your contact information and send it to us with your financial support or just complete the Pay Pal Credit card authorization on the Become A Supporter page on our web site.

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Medicare Advantage (MA) is the third largest and perhaps the most successful federal health insurance program. We believe that the Medicare Advantage is the best platform upon which to build “Medicare For All” that works for everybody.

The Medicare Advantage Program has broad bipartisan approval because it is so popular with the broad spectrum of the senior voting block effectively delivers economic benefits to the taxpayers and is a program that works for everybody. 293 members and 60 Senators currently serving in of the 116th Congress have supported Medicare Advantage.

MA is also known as Medicare Part C. MA plans are offered by private insurance companies contracted with Medicare and provide the same level of coverage that Medicare Part A and Part B provide.

Below, we wanted to share with you some pros of MA plans:

• MA plans usually provide more benefits than original Medicare such as routine vision care, hearing aids, routine dental care, prescription drug coverage, and fitness center membership.
• MA plans can cost less. Premiums can be as low a $0. Cost sharing may also be less with MA. MA plans limit your maximum out-of-pocket expense.
• MA plans coordinate care among all your healthcare providers.
• Many MA plans have medication therapy management.
• Many MA plans combine medical and Part D prescription drug coverage.

The Medicare-Advantage-For-All.Com movement is seeking to open the eyes of the American people to this better solution over Medicare for All. We want Democrats and Republicans to understand our position and come together in the solution. We want to extend a “Medicare” program to everyone just as much as our sensible and sincere politicians want to do, but we sincerely believe we have found the best way to do it.

Medicare Advantage (Medicare Part C) is the most popular health insurance program in America. It covers over 22.6 Million Americans, adding thousands of new baby boomer to its ranks every day. The program gives seniors peace of mind, immediate access to medical care, financial security and affordability. Americans of every age need to wake up and demand this program for everybody.

For more information on the Medicare-Advantage-For-All plan and the movement, visit our Medicare Advantage For All plan page, call us at 1-888-683-3719 or email us at: contact@medicare-advantage-for-all.com.

To support and join this movement, you can download our Membership Application and complete it with your contact information and send it to us with your financial support or just complete the Pay Pal Credit card authorization on the Become A Supporter page on our web site.

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The failure of Obamacare has brought forth the Democrats’ “Medicare 4 All” concepts, requiring even more government intervention. The progressive Democrats are pushing several forms of Medicare For All, but none of them address the problems of affordability and quality that we have in the system.

We wanted to share with you some more facts about the democrats’ plan for Medicare For All.

1. What does Medicare for All mean?
   1. Generally, it means an end to the dominance of private health insurance in the United States, in favor of either a government-run “single-payer” system, such as Canada’s, or a government-provided alternative to private insurance plans that Americans could buy into, an idea known as the “public option.”
2. Would Medicare for All change everybody’s health care?
   1. It could, but it depends on the plan. The most expansive visions of Medicare for All, like those of Senator Bernie Sanders and Pramila Jayapal of Washington, , would establish universal benefits through a government-run program and outlaw most forms of private insurance, including employer-provided coverage This could mean little, if any, out-of-pocket cost to patients, but also less choice for people who want to purchase specific types of benefits and for employers who use them to attract workers.
3. How much would Medicare for all Cost?
   32. A study from the libertarian Mercatus Center said Sanders’ 2017 single-payer bill would raise federal spending by $32.6 trillion over 10 years.
4. Would Medicare for All cut health-care costs?
   1. Medicare for All may allow the government to limit costs by setting prices and eliminate the administrative burden of private health insurance.

To some degree, this may sound good, but we need to make Medicare more affordable. In order to make our Medicare program available to ALL Americans, we must make it more affordable so that every American can take advantage of it without sending our country into bankruptcy.

Medicare Advantage plans (MA) are comprehensive health insurance programs that replace traditional Medicare. We need a Senate Bill directing HHS, along with doctors, hospitals, health plan experts and Medicare Advantage health plans to recommend to Congress a Medicare plan For All that provides these very same benefits for all Americans.

We believe that the Medicare Advantage is the best platform upon which to build “Medicare For All” that works for everybody. The Medicare Advantage Program has broad bipartisan approval because it is so popular with the broad spectrum of the senior voting block, effectively delivers economic benefits to the taxpayers and is a program that works for everybody.

For more information on the Medicare-Advantage-For-All plan and the movement, visit our Medicare Advantage For All plan page, call us at 1-888-683-3719 or email us at: contact@medicare-advantage-for-all.com.

To support and join this movement, you can download our Membership Application and complete it with your contact information and send it to us with your financial support or just complete the Pay Pal Credit card authorization on the Become A Supporter page on our web site.

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At Medicare-Advantage-For-All.Com, we know that modifying the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will not go far enough, and the current ideas for extending “Medicare for All” will go too far! We believe our Medicare-Advantage-Plan-For-All (MAA) will be just right.

Medicare Advantage for All will deliver comprehensive cost-effective health insurance for all Americans. Our current Medicare Advantage program works for seniors and it works for taxpayers! It should be the platform upon which the Democrats and the Republicans can build a “Medicare for All” program together. In order to fix these problems, we need legislation that can garner at least 218 votes in the House of Representatives and 60 votes in the Senate.  Right now, we have 293 members of the House of Representatives and 60 Senators that have supported Medicare Advantage. Medicare Advantage is the answer! And, it doesn’t matter whether the House majority changes leadership. The needs of the American people for real health insurance reform should not divide us, they should bring us together.

We believe the United States must commit itself to achieve the lowest National Health Care GDP of all the developed nations by 2030. We will fail to do that if we try to extend the old Medicare Defined Benefit Plan to every American.

With Medicare Advantage plans, you get:

• All benefits of original Medicare Part A & B.
• Hospital, medical and prescription drug coverage in one plan.
• Coverage for things that original Medicare doesn’t cover like dental, vision, hearing care, prescription drug coverage, and gym memberships.
• Limits on out-of-pocket spending.

If we are successful in getting Medicare Advantage plans extended to all Americans:

• It would not require market stabilization funds and the 3R Risk abatement programs and the CSR payments.
• It would eliminate the need for special federal and state funding to support the marketplace exchanges.
• It would continue to use capitation financing.
• It would not require insurance carriers to raise their rates in order to expand services under the inflationary 80 – 85 % federal loss ratio requirements.
• It will cost a lot less than the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In 2015, if we had purchased high-quality health insurance for all the ACA participants and paid all the premiums in full, we would have saved the American Tax payers well over $60 Billion.
• It would eliminate the need for selective taxes by establishing an equitable funding base that doesn’t single out Wall Street or the health insurance companies that we are relying on to administer the program in a cost-effective manner for the benefit of the American people.

We hope you become a supporter of Medicare Advantage for All.

We want you to become a supporter. Here’s how: You can download our Membership Application and complete it with your contact information and send it to us with your financial support or you can complete the Pay Pal Credit card authorization. Tell us whether you would like to be listed as a supporter on this website or remain confidential, and if we can count on you to be an Advocate.

We welcome any level of taxable (non-tax deductible) financial support with which you feel comfortable.

For more information on our membership and Medicare-Advantage-For-All movement, visit our Medicare Advantage For All plan page, call us at 1-888-683-3719 or contact our Medicare-Advantage-For-All Consultants or email: contact@medicare-advantage-for-all.com.

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Medicare Advantage for All will deliver comprehensive cost–effective health insurance for all Americans. Our current Medicare Advantage program works for seniors and it works for taxpayers! It should be the platform upon which the Democrats build their “Medicare for All” program. 

We are a grassroots research and educational movement. We are on a mission to promote the highest quality, truly American health plan for the lowest possible cost.  

On the Medicare-Advantage-For-All. com website, we further our goal by re-publishing notices, emails, letters, and alerts that we send to congressional staff, which include members of Congress, key congressional staff members, the White House, including policymakers in the executive branch, academics, and D.C. think-tanks, policy wonks, the media, and our loyal members. 

Below, we have shared some of our recent communications with members of Congress and other vital NEWS and information:   

10/23/2019 – VERMA DUCKS ON ADMIN. CONTINGENCIES if the ACA is struck down. 

By Adam Cancryn – Politico 

CMS Administrator Seema Verma repeatedly refused to tell a House oversight panel how the Trump administration plans to stabilize the nation’s health care system if a federal court strikes down the Affordable Care Act. 

“The president has made clear that we will have a plan in action to make sure that Americans have access to affordable coverage,” Verma told a House Energy and Commerce oversight and investigations subcommittee today. “I’m not going to get into any specifics of the plan.“ 

House Democrats repeatedly pressed Verma over the contingency planning, criticizing her for failing to lay out any fallback options even as the administration backs the legal effort by a group of GOP-led states to immediately wipe out Obamacare. A federal appeals court is expected to rule on the case in the coming weeks. 

“Do you have a plan that you can present to us, or is this another pie in the sky promise?” said Rep. Jan  (D-Ill.)Schakowsky 

Verma later insisted that the administration has planned for “a variety of different scenarios” and only needs to wait for the court to rule — but refused to offer any evidence or details. 

President Donald Trump had originally vowed to roll out his own health care plan by September, but officials have not provided any updated timing, and there’s little expectation any proposal from the White House will extend beyond offering general principles. 

10/22/2019 – HOUSE RSC PERSONALIZED AFFORDABLE CARE PLAN RELEASE 

House conservatives have rolled out their Personalized Affordable Care Plan as an alternative to “Medicare for All” ahead of the 2020 elections. The White House has not officially endorsed the Plan, which envisions rolling back Obamacare’s popular Medicaid expansion and much of the regulations governing the individual market and offering federal block grants to states to help establish their own health insurance markets. The proposal is designed to blunt criticism for failing to protect people with preexisting conditions, arguing that high-risk coverage pools — along with fewer benefit requirements for health plans and an equalization of the tax treatment for employer-sponsored and individual plans — will effectively provide all Americans with an array of low-cost options. 

https://www.medicare-advantage-for-all.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8670/2019/10/HOUSE-RSC-PERSONALIZED-AFFORDABLE-CARE-PLAN.pdf 

10/15/2019 – EMAIL TO RSC COMMITTEE MEMBERS 

Email to RSC member – October 15, 2019 

Recently, I sent you the list of 293 members of the 116th House of Representatives that have supported Medicare Advantage (MA). I will send it again Today! I have since learned that the Republican Study Committee is planning to release its own health plan alternative by the end of the month. As an important member of this and related committees, I am writing to urge you to incorporate Medicare Advantage into your thinking. 

Previously, I sent you the top 28 reasons why Medicare Advantage should be the core of your new health plan. I believe that to successfully pass any major health plan legislation in the House, then get it through the Senate and ultimately signed by the President, the plan must have three essential elements. It must be bipartisan (or capable of becoming so). It must be cost-effective, but even more importantly, in order to avoid the natural skepticism from public health advocates and others, it must be popular with the American people. The truth is Medicare Advantage is the ONLY health plan that meets ALL three of these basic criteria. 

Medicare Advantage For All has answers for you on this and how to restore the health of the American people, including the efficacy of Medicare Advantage as a national plan for all ages. These answers can be found on www.medicare-advantage-for-all.com  We are excited about your new health plan. Reducing our cost of health care and making it affordable will ultimately require an Apollo-like national commitment. And, we believe that you can “Make America Healthy Again” with the best design of the health plan for which you vote. You will be receiving our correspondence again soon by snail-mail.  Please keep a look-out for it. Thank you very much for your service. 

09/18/2019 – LETTER TO MA SUPPORTERS IN THE HOUSE 

Letter excerpts to the 293 House members supporting MA – September 18, 2019 

Thank you for supporting the Medicare Advantage Program (MA) which is the bright star on the national health insurance stage. MA is the most popular health plan with your constituents and in Congress.  Enclosed you will find the list of the 293 of your fellow Hose members that have supported Medicare Advantage. This is more than double the number of sponsors for the Medicare for All Act of 2019. Also enclosed please find our Fifth Edition of The True American displaying the Medicare Advantage programs popularity and making the case for extending this dynamic program to All Americans. (See the Fifth Edition here under the True American Tab – SITTING ON A BOMB: May 2019 ) 

The most important challenge we face is maintaining and promoting the health and well–being of all our people. We have 30 Million uninsured. We suffer from a crippling chronic disease epidemic that is driving our costs of health care through the roof. 

We believe you have already supported the solution. A properly designed Medicare Advantage plan with an integral health and wellness component created and delivered under the supervision of our able Health & Human Services Department is the answer to all of the problems. A Medicare-Advantage-For-All Program that changes the way our medical professionals treat chronic illness will save over $1 Trillion Dollars annually. 

Medicare Advantage is the most popular health plan in America. Unfortunately, there has never been any major health plan legislation passed by the Congress on Medicare that has NOT been bipartisan! In fact, every major act signed into law since Medicare’s inception was both bipartisan and passed to reduce the cost of the medicare program. 

Your constituents are looking to you for answers. We believe that for any health plan to pass the House, then get through the Senate and ultimately signed into law by the President; the plan must have three essential elements. It must be bipartisan (or capable of becoming so). It must be cost-effective, but even more importantly, in order to avoid the natural skepticism from public health advocates and others, it must be popular with the American people. The truth is Medicare Advantage is the ONLY health plan that meets ALL three of these basic criteria. 

We Americans are sitting on a health care Bomb! This problem can not be fixed without your help. But, every day your constituents have to live with high cost and the difficulty in getting the health care that they need and deserve. That can not be good for your re-election. Please consider working with the 293 of your colleagues, who support Medicare Advantage and help us create a “program that really works”. 

Want to support Medicare Advantage? You can. 

To support and join this movement, you can download our Medicare Advantage Membership Application and complete it with your contact information and send it to us with your financial support or just complete the Pay Pal Credit card authorization on the About and Become A Supporter Pages on our web site. 

For more information on the Medicare-Advantage-For-All plan and the movement, visit our Medicare-Advantage-For-All plan page or our Medicare Advantage Facebook page, call us at 1-888-683-3719 or contact our email us at: contact@medicare-advantage-for-all.com. 

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Democrats, Republicans, the American people – we all want affordable health insurance. Because of its current price tag, the CBO and Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) both estimate that we have 28 million people without health insurance.

Over the last 50 years, the rate of health care inflation and the concomitant cost of health insurance has risen at double digit rates of increase. According to the CBO, healthcare is the fastest growing category of national spending. The U.S. health expenditures in 2015 accounted for over 25% of the federal budget, up from just 7% in 1976.

A comparative reference on this level of health care spending, is the comparison to what we spend on our national defense. Our “entire” National Defense and Security Budget is 16% of the federal budget. Our healthcare expenditure is 1.56 times as much as we spend on our military. Our military budget is also, by far, the largest in the World. It exceeds the spending of All the other industrialized nations “combined” including Russia and China. The military/industrial complex does not get nearly as much of our tax dollars, as our government spends health care!

Ten percent of our citizens are not covered by health insurance. The question is, do we have to spend even more money to cover them or is there another way to do it? The National Priorities Project, quoting from numerous reputable Research Polls and Reports, found that most Americans name controlling healthcare costs as a top priority (64%). An equally large number of Americans strongly value Medicare, but only 22% say they support reducing health spending. As Senator Rand Paul said in the past, “we all want more health care benefits, but we are unwilling (or unable) to pay for them,” especially at the state level. We cannot blame the Republicans for trying to reduce the cost of health care. And, we cannot fault the Democrats for trying to increase the number of our citizens, who have health insurance at the same time.

We are spending tax dollars to sustain and improve the very health of our citizens, including our indigent mothers with children, many of our low wage workers, our retirees, our veterans, the unemployed, our poor men and women and our disabled. How much of your own family budget is spent on health insurance? If it is just 25% (like our national budget), you would probably feel pretty good about it. But what if your spending only covered 90% of your family? What if you couldn’t afford to cover your children for that amount of money? How would you feel about it then?

Our solution to more affordable health care is Medicare Advantage for All. The Medicare Advantage (MA) programs insure over twenty-two (22) Million Americans with comprehensive health insurance, at a lower federal cost than either Traditional Medicare or Obamacare/ACA

To support and join this movement, you can download our Medicare Advantage Membership Application and complete it with your contact information and send it to us with your financial support or just complete the Pay Pal Credit card authorization on the About and Become A Supporter Pages on our web site.

For more information on the Medicare-Advantage-For-All plan and the movement, visit our Medicare-Advantage-For-All plan page or our Medicare Advantage Facebook page, call us at 1-888-683-3719 or contact our email us at: contact@medicare-advantage-for-all.com.

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