Stop the Corporate Takeover of Medicare

Medicare is an essential public program that provides universal health coverage to millions of seniors. But Medicare is under attack from corporate greed through a program called Medicare Advantage. Medicare Advantage plans use hefty taxpayer subsidies to offer consumers cheaper premiums, but then often fail to provide patients with adequate care when they need it and limit patients to small provider networks. Recent investigations have found that the largest insurers in Medicare Advantage have committed widespread fraud and denied patients critical care they were supposed to provide by law.

Medicare Advantage exemplifies why the profit motive has no place in healthcare. The billions of our taxpayer dollars that get spent on Medicare every year should go to providing people with healthcare, not making greedy CEOs richer. That’s why we’re calling on members of Congress to not sign the health insurance industry’s letter supporting Medicare Advantage, and instead sign Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s letter calling for smart reforms of the program to prevent fraud, abuse, and denials of critical care.

Share your voice protecting Medicare from corporate greed—whether you’re on Medicare, Medicare Advantage, or just believe in protecting one of our most valued public programs.

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Dear [recipient position will go here] [recipient name will go here],

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I’m writing to urge you not to sign AHIP’s Medicare Advantage letter. I live in your district, am an active volunteer with Be A Hero and believe that health care is a human right.

Medicare Advantage is privatizing Medicare, enriching for-profit insurance behemoths, and undermining our political and financial ability to improve or expand traditional Medicare. Medicare Advantage was supposed to reduce costs through better managed care. But, instead, the program has been a profit machine for the health insurance industry, driving up Medicare spending by tens of billions of dollars a year. And Medicare Advantage plans are inappropriately delaying and denying care to people with costly and complex conditions, behavior which is widespread and ongoing.

I urge you not to sign AHIP’s Medicare Advantage letter and instead please sign Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s letter calling for smart reforms of the Medicare Advantage program to prevent fraud, abuse and denials of critical care. We must push back against the greed that is driving up health care costs and depriving so many people of care. Refusing to be in allegiance with AHIP is a crucial part of that effort.

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