General Meeting: Let’s Reclaim Medicare From the Profiteers
October 17, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Registrations are closed for this event
MEDICARE ADVANTAGE: BAD FOR PATIENTS, GREAT FOR PROFITEERS
Ed Weisbart, MD
Our precious Medicare program has attracted Wall Street, and they’re pillaging our public dollars as they delay and deny our access to healthcare. We’ll talk about why Medicare is so important to us all, who’s attacking it, and some decisions you might not realize you’re making!
Medicare Part C, also known as Medicare Advantage or MA, is a privately administered program in which the federal government gives a regular lump sum of money to a third party (generally a commercial insurer) to “manage” patient care. This is radically different from the way Traditional Medicare (TM) pays providers and gives the insurers running MA an irresistible financial incentive to delay, deny, and otherwise skimp on care. MA is growing, to the detriment of patients everywhere. Although the program has existed since 2003, it has expanded enrollment significantly in the past decade. This year, Medicare reached an alarming milestone, as data confirmed that more than 50% of all Medicare beneficiaries were enrolled in an MA plan.
Ed Weisbart, MD
Ed Weisbart MD is a nationally recognized physician/activist working to save Medicare. He currently serves as the board secretary and MO chapter chair of Physicians for a National Health Program, a non-profit non-partisan organization of more than 25,000 physicians and other healthcare advocates in support of a publicly financed, non-profit single-payer national health insurance program that would fully cover medical care for all Americans.
After practicing family medicine for 20 years at Rush Medical Center in Chicago, he moved to St. Louis in 2003 to serve as chief medical officer of Express Scripts until retiring in 2010.
OCTOBER COMMUNITY OUTREACH
Join us in supporting Families Forward, a local non-profit based in Irvine whose mission is to prevent and end family homelessness by providing access to housing and resources that create lasting stability.
We will be collecting the items in the flyer below along with grocery gift cards for their annual Thanksgiving Food Drive. The preferred grocery stores accessed by a majority of clients are: Ralphs, Albertsons & Stater Brothers.
Please bring donations to our meeting. We will have someone in front of The Murray Center to collect your donations.
MEDICARE ADVANTAGE: BAD FOR PATIENTS, GREAT FOR PROFITEERS
Ed Weisbart, MD
Our precious Medicare program has attracted Wall Street, and they’re pillaging our public dollars as they delay and deny our access to healthcare. We’ll talk about why Medicare is so important to us all, who’s attacking it, and some decisions you might not realize you’re making!
Medicare Part C, also known as Medicare Advantage or MA, is a privately administered program in which the federal government gives a regular lump sum of money to a third party (generally a commercial insurer) to “manage” patient care. This is radically different from the way Traditional Medicare (TM) pays providers and gives the insurers running MA an irresistible financial incentive to delay, deny, and otherwise skimp on care. MA is growing, to the detriment of patients everywhere. Although the program has existed since 2003, it has expanded enrollment significantly in the past decade. This year, Medicare reached an alarming milestone, as data confirmed that more than 50% of all Medicare beneficiaries were enrolled in an MA plan.
Ed Weisbart, MD
Ed Weisbart MD is a nationally recognized physician/activist working to save Medicare. He currently serves as the board secretary and MO chapter chair of Physicians for a National Health Program, a non-profit non-partisan organization of more than 25,000 physicians and other healthcare advocates in support of a publicly financed, non-profit single-payer national health insurance program that would fully cover medical care for all Americans.
OCTOBER COMMUNITY OUTREACH
Join us in supporting Families Forward, a local non-profit based in Irvine whose mission is to prevent and end family homelessness by providing access to housing and resources that create lasting stability.
We will be collecting the items in the flyer below along with grocery gift cards for their annual Thanksgiving Food Drive. The preferred grocery stores accessed by a majority of clients are: Ralphs, Albertsons & Stater Brothers.
Please bring donations to our meeting. We will have someone in front of The Murray Center to collect your donations.
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