Please share your personal experience to help the media and policymakers understand the importance of your coordinated healthcare services.
Please DO NOT do away with Medicare Advantage plans
“Please DO NOT do away with Medicare Advantage plans - it is helping me afford my medical care and prescriptions.”
Please do not cute Medicare Advantage
“I am a Medicare advantage patient on a fixed income in Tennessee. Medicare Advantage provides me insurance without many unexpected additional expenses. I voted democratic in the 2009 election, but if you cut Medicare Advantage I will be gone from the party. It is not fair, or probably constitutional to guarantee Florida Medicare Advantage patients immunity to cuts, but the rest of the seniors across America will take cuts. Please do not cut Medicare Advantage.”
Please do not take this away
“Without Medicare Advantage, at 55 and disabled and on a fixed income, I would not be able to afford anything and subsequently will die from complications of diabetes and depression. Please do not take this away, not only am I affected but my children and grandchildren are as well.”
Please stop the raid on Medicare Advantage
“Please stop the raid on Medicare Advantage. It is a vital worthwhile program successfully serving many seniors.”
Please make later years for my parents as easy for them as possible
“My parents are 76 and 81 years old .They worked hard in a carpet mill to raise 5 kids.
Their income is a little over $2000 a month. They spend about $500 a month in supplemental health coverage and medicine. Life has been tough for them. I don't how many more years I have with them. So, please make their later years as easy for them as possible.”
Please do not eliminate it for political reasons
“Medicare Advantage in most opinions will not increase costs, but rather reduce costs in the long run. Please do not eliminate it for political reasons, just to get a bill through fast”
We can not afford the changes you are planning
“We can not afford the changes you are planning. We love our Medicare Advantage Plan, as we are on a fixed income. Please take more time to review the changes you are supporting.”
Why do the seniors continue to be punished?
“My wife and I are retired, and are on Medicare Advantage plans. The loss & cuts to this program would be devastating. Why do the seniors continue to be punished? We paid into Social Security for over 40 years of employment and now you want to take away and cut our benefits.”
Elimination of MAPD plans for our seniors would be a reckless for the uninformed representatives of these patients
“I have worked in the managed Medicare field for many years on both the clinical and administrative areas. Physicians I have worked with like it because of the preventive and diagnostics available to patients to diagnose and prevent early disease and when patients are sick the formal coordination of care support provided to both patients and physicians to provide the best care most cost effectively and efficiently. Patients on straight Medicare do not have the luxury of this team approach and many times end up with more costly care as a result. Elimination of MAPD plans for our seniors would be a reckless for the uninformed representatives of these patients.”
My Medicare Advantage very comprehensive in coverage
“I have AIDS and am living on a fixed income. I credit the fact that I have been able to receive care from the same incredibly caring and knowledgeable physician for many years with keeping me alive. My Medicare Advantage plan is not only reasonable with respect to my out of pocket expenses, it is very comprehensive in coverage, including prescription drug coverage of the very high cost medications required to maintain a semblance of a "normal" life. Elimination of these plans will amount to nothing less than a death sentence for me.”
Please do the right thing
“Please do the right thing. Leave Medicare Advantage alone. We are spending so much now on our own medical care--LEAVE US ALONE!!!!!”
I urge you give due consideration to each piece of legislation
“As a current employee working for a coordinated model system, I believe it is vital to directed concerted effort to enhance care and control costs for our seniors and our national health system. Now is not the time to cut costs on the most critical and efficient method of service to our seniors. Rather, we should be looking at how to better align incentives to promote the coordinated care model so that it can be cost-effective over the long haul (for your children's children). I urge you give due consideration to each piece of legislation as it impacts the entire health care industry and basic quality of life for all.”
Please, please do not cut funds for Medicare
“Please, please do not cut funds for Medicare. And, please preserve Medicare Advantage. I really need my Medicare Advantage plan. If funding is cut, I'll get less in services, or I'll have to pay more, and the reality probably is both of those.”
Keep Medicare Advantage the way it is
“President Obama promised that I could keep my current coverage if I like it! I like it, yet they are trying to take it away! Keep Medicare Advantage the way it is! No cuts.”
Please!
“Please do not take away what we worked for all of our lives.”
PLEASE DON'T PASS THIS
“I've had Medicare Advantage for a long time and appreciate all the benefits that go with it. At 82, I'm still relatively healthy and don't have many health problems to date, but my luck can run out. I'm a widow, living on SS and can't really afford the 100% increase of the premium, from $65 a month to $130. PLEASE DON'T PASS THIS.”
Our group has near 10,000 seniors who depend on Medicare Advantage
“Our group has near 10,000 seniors who depend on Medicare Advantage for their healthcare. And although many of these seniors have complicated medical problems, we are able to give them coordinated care that is cost-effective and maximizes quality.
A recent study by the Alliance of Community Health Plans, an organization of nonprofit, community-based and regional health plans, showed that if Medicare fee-for-service patients had similar rates of readmissions and preventable hospitalizations as coordinated care plans like the ones our patients are in it would have saved $10 billion dollars a year.
It is unfortunate that this study performed by Garad Anderson, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University has not gained more dissemination.”
I have received excellent care
“I have been a patient of doctors who use coordinated care for over 15 years. I have received excellent care. My doctors communicate with each other electronically which makes me feel more confident in their decisions. I also have the advantage of getting extra case management services from my medical group between appointments from nurses, educators and social workers.”
This is very important to us
“We are part of the 1.5 Million Californians of Medicare Advantage patients in the USA and rely on our services from our plan providers. Please support the healthcare proposals that include coordinated care and Accountable care Organizations. This is very important to us. It is a matter of life and death as the little amount we live on and the prices of all life's medicine, food, clothing, gasoline have all gone up so high this past year. It is so very hard for us to make ends meet and live a fair quality life in our golden years.”
Please do not cut funding from the Medicare Advantage Plans
“Please do not cut funding from the Medicare Advantage Plans that help millions of our seniors get the continuity of care that they so much need and deserve. The loss of this program to our seniors would be like a death sentence. Please protect and support this valued program by voting NO against cuts in funding to Medicare Advantage Plans.”
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Coordinated Care Facts
In 2007, Medicare Advantage saved seniors nearly $90 per month or $1000 per year in out of pocket costs. An estimated savings of approximately $7 billion annually. Additionally, compared to traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage plans can reduce out-of-pocket costs by up to $4,000 annually for patients with the highest healthcare needs.
- Comprehensive Care: Patients receive integrated treatment plans, and expert case management and disease prevention strategies for the chronically ill.
- Cost-Effective Care: Integrated medical groups are able to support investments in advanced healthcare information technology, tracking patient follow-through on treatment plans and patient outcomes, and helping to uncover health problems before they become catastrophic.
- Accessible Care: Efficiencies within the coordinated care delivery model mean better healthcare for more seniors, including:
• lower out-of-pocket costs
• increased health services such as dental care, vision care and preventive care
• reduced hospitalizations
• increased prescription coverage
• higher overall satisfaction rates
• greater value for the premium dollar than any other healthcare delivery system
What’s At Risk
If Medicare reforms dismantle incentives for coordinated care, seniors will experience significant increases in out of pocket costs - at a time when many seniors have seen their retirement account’s decline by over 40 percent in value — and decreased quality of healthcare.
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