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It’s Open Enrollment Season for Medicare Advantage Which Means It’s Open Hunting Season on Senior Citizens

Jeffrey Goodman
6 min readNov 20, 2023

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Don Akchin recently published an article discussing the Medicare Advantage boondoggle:

A few sections of his article especially caught my eye, including this one:

An analysis in 2021 found that Medicare overpaid the Medicare Advantage plans more than $106 billion from 2010 to 2019. To put it another way, Medicare

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Jeffrey Goodman
Jeffrey Goodman

Written by Jeffrey Goodman

Navigating facts and numbers to help people. Strong opinions on climate change and healthcare. Objective, not neutral. MIT engineer, Wharton MBA.

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