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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
If The Villages health system accepted original Medicare for their primary care doctors, they would be inundated with patients from the surrounding areas, and the health centers would no longer be convenient for Villages residents to use. If you accept original Medicare, you must accommodate all patients who have it.
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Medicare advantage plans are the plans of choice for low income seniors by virtue of low cost (and the seniors in our surrounding area tend to be lower income than Villagers), so this statement doesn’t make sense to me.
If you wanted to limit healthcare within The Villages, the doctors would only accept the more costly Medicare Supplement plans. Unless There is some type of Medicare advantage plan that only lets you use The Villages health care system? Which is a scary thought based on what we have seen and heard these past few years from our neighbors.
The Medicare supplement plans are more costly and have much better coverage, and a far greater selection of specialists and top notch health care facilities in the unlikely event you wind up with some unpleasant disease. You pick your doctor and your care. You are not stuck with a primary care doctor playing God with your health. Advantage plans are all well and good til you actually need serious medical care.
I am now very curious how many Villagers choose advantage vs supplements. Having listened to the health care adventures of so many of our friends and neighbors here, we will absolutely be getting a great supplement when we start Medicare next year.