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Social Security & Medicare

Attilatheblond

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1. If the big insurance Advantage providers weren't making tons of $ on this

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Tue Nov 21, 2023, 11:16 PM

Nov 2023

they wouldn't be spending so much on advertising via TV and all the print materials we end up being deluged with this time of year! And how would they make all that money that makes the marketing worthwhile? Limiting what they pay out, IOW, limiting what services they will cover. IOW, bean counters making medical decisions with the cover of doctors in the employ of the companies pretending they are making decisions for your health and not the bottom line of the companies who pay them.

If they weren't raking in a ton of money, they wouldn't be bombarding us with BS ads to stampede us into thinking they are on our side.

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