Medicare Stories

Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt had stated that the current administration is committed to protecting and expanding the Medicare Advantage program.

The Medicare Advantage program provides more coverage to current medicare users through more coverage and options. Those additions in the medicare advantage program include:

• Medicare Health Maintenance Organization (HMOs)
• Preferred Provider Organizations (PPO)
• Private Fee-for-Service Plans
• Medicare Special Needs Plans

The government current spends roughly $12 million more on the estimated 9 million medicare advantage users. The democrats would like to see medicare advantage spending lessened and a transfer of those dollars to a wider user of medicare insurance period.