Stop the Medicare Advantage Scam

I am your constituent. Medicare Advantage costs the U.S. way too much. The companies involved are found mainly to cheat, deny needed coverage, require pre-authorizations for needed care, and, to add insult to injury, spend excess profits on buying back stock to enrich executives and shareholders at the expense of helping to save their customers’ lives. The top seven health insurance CEOs made $330 million last year. They spend hundreds of millions lobbying Congress to maximize their profits. The best would be for you to enact H.R. 3421 to establish an improved Medicare for All national health insurance program. If you can’t do that, at least keep the health insurance companies who do business with the U.S. government from cheating and employing stock price-boosting tactics like buybacks. We elected you to help us. This is a life-or-death issue for Americans; we trust you to value life over profit.