Enrollment in the privatized Medicare Advantage plans only increased 3.8% overall from February 2024 to February 2025. If enrollment remains at that level throughout 2025, it will be the lowest for MA since 2007, based on an analysis of data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). A major reason for the slower growth is that heading into the Medicare Annual Enrollment Period, Oct. 15 – Dec. 7, 2024, Humana, CVS – Health Aetna, Wellcare-Centene, and Cigna terminated multiple “unprofitable” MA plans across America and left 1.1 million beneficiaries without plan coverage. Another reason is worse benefits and fewer plans available coming into 2025. The growth path that MA had been on acquired 54% (34.4 million) of the seniors’ healthcare insurance market. That growth translated to massive profits for insurers, which receive a per-member, per-month fee for covering their beneficiaries’ health needs, but also contributed to MA costing taxpayers $88 …
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https://dxh92vrxakdsl.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/MVI_0184_compressed.mp4 NRLN Address Retees’ Issues with Congress NRLN President Bill Kadereit’s video above on September 17, 2025, was during theNRLN’s annual Fly-In to Washington, DC to advocate on Capitol Hill issues important to retirees: Protect Retirees in Pension De-risking (Pension Risk Transfer) Fund Social Security to Keep America’s Promise Reduce the Pain of Social Security Overpayment Clawback Protect Medicare the Lifeline for Older Americans Congress Should Prevent Traditional Medicare Prior Authorization Trial Enforce Medicare Guaranteed Issue Rights When Medicare Plans Are Dropped Support to Restore Delphi Salaried Retirees Pension Benefits. Read details about the NRLN Fly-In that will be featured in the upcoming fall FOCUS newsletter. When the newsletter is published it will be announced in an email, on Facebook, X (Twitter) and Instagram. Click here to view a few photos of meetings in the House and Senate …
Trustees for Social Security and Medicare Issue Annual Report The Trustees for Social Security and Medicare issued their annual reports on the programs on Wednesday, …
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