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The Hartmann Report

AVOID GETTING DUPED BY MEDICARE ADVANTAGE SCAMMERS DURING OPEN ENROLLMENT

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Medicare Advantage ads obscure the often-life-threatening restrictions and bank-account draining demands that are common in Medicare Advantage plans. Alex Lawson, Executive Director from Social Security Works explains how to avoid getting duped by Medicare scammers during open enrollment.

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0:47.2

Welcome back to our program on the line with us is our old buddy Alex Lawson, the executive

0:51.3

director of SocialSecurityWorks, SocialSecurityWorks.org, strengthensocialsecurity.org on Twitter,

0:58.4

SSWorks, or a Law 202.

1:01.6

And Alex, welcome back to the program. I wanted to get you on to just kind of catch up on

1:07.0

what is happening with the Biden administration, with Medicare, the Centers for Medicare,

1:11.8

CMS, and Medicare and Social Security and all this sort of thing.

1:15.0

And most importantly, what's going on with the ACA REACH program and what are the latest scams

1:19.9

that we're seeing around? Medicare parts C, you have to have that, you know.

1:24.3

So welcome. Let me just throw the door open wide for you.

1:29.1

Yeah, it's always a pleasure to be here, Tom, especially because you're one of the few people

1:33.5

who really understands the danger here and the crisis point we're in, where private insurance is

1:39.5

slowly but surely gobbling up traditional Medicare or as I call it now, actual Medicare,

1:45.8

because private insurance is not Medicare. Actual Medicare is Medicare, but private insurance is

1:52.5

making up almost 51% of people who are signing up for what they believe to be a Medicare.

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