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lapfog_1

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4. If I understood the clip accurately
Thu May 22, 2025, 12:23 AM
May 22

Having not read the amendment proposed. she is offering up the "No upcode" part of the Medicare Advantage plan... meaning that this amendment ( if passed ) would only go after the portion of the money which is now handled by Medicare Advantage when the insured is covered by "Advantage" which is being upcoded by the insurers to graft money out of the government. but it doesn't go after the money that is extracted out of the insured when they are really sick ( hospital stays, expensive treatments, operations ) and the private insurance attempts to not cover the costs.

And I am guessing, it probably doesn't even get ALL the upcoded money back from the private insurance companies.

But it is better than nothing.

The amendment will fail of course.

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