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10:3110:31, 25 December 2019 diff hist +35 m Medicare Advantage →Usage
10:3010:30, 25 December 2019 diff hist +301 Medicare Advantage →Usage: added snowbirds as fourth group of people not likely to choose a Part C health plan
10:2410:24, 25 December 2019 diff hist +702 Medicare Advantage →Program structure: additions reflected the new trend to including more non-medical services in Part C plans
10:0910:09, 25 December 2019 diff hist +50 m Medicare Advantage →History
10:0110:01, 25 December 2019 diff hist +4 m Medicare Advantage No edit summary
09:5809:58, 25 December 2019 diff hist +226 Medicare Advantage begin to add more detail on the increasing number of non-medical services, such as assistance for daily living, covered under an increasing number of Medicare Advantage plans. Also as to a request for sources running as a banner, please note last paragraph of first section (everything in here can be found on cms dot gov or hhs dot gov

19:3219:32, 29 November 2019 diff hist +213 Leonard Feeney confusion of when Cushing became a Cardinal; there seems to be other timeline issues in this entry

13:2213:22, 2 November 2019 diff hist −11 Medicare (United States) Just a few typos and similar things changed so that I could make the following comment: almost all <ref> notations in this entire article are ancient (that does not make them wrong in ALL cases) or secondary sources. Almost all references, even the ancient but correct ones, could be changed to "Medicare and You, 2020," issued in September 2019, or to the Annual Medicare Trustees Report, most recently issued for CY 2018, in April 2019

11:3611:36, 18 October 2019 diff hist −616 Medicare Advantage A footnote 1 added was not a reference to anything but pure unadulterated BS: MA plans do NOT provide more in benefits than the cost of the plan. Most MA sponsors are NOT even insurance companies. There is NO policy; it is a plan. The "profits" for administering MA (most are non profit) are the same as for administering Original Medicare (and less than for Medigap). The Trustees pay the same for everyone on Medicare (MA or Medigap or ???). Taxpayers pay nothing; the money comes from the trustees
11:0811:08, 18 October 2019 diff hist +14 Medicare Advantage Someone sent me a notification about my changes of Sept 30, 2019. I have no idea how to respond directly to that notification but all the Sept 30 2019 changes were either updates based on the 2019 Medicare Trustees Report or deletions of 6-10 year old information hat is severely out of date

17:1517:15, 30 September 2019 diff hist 0 m Medicare (United States) →Part C: Medicare Advantage plans: Some contributor claims that this section needs more citations yet (1.) it has as many citations as the sections on Parts A, B and D and (2.) it clearly refers readers to the annual Medicare Trustees reports and MedPAC reports (what more citation would anyone need?)
11:4211:42, 30 September 2019 diff hist +11 Medicare Advantage No edit summary
11:3711:37, 30 September 2019 diff hist +74 m Medicare Advantage No edit summary
11:3111:31, 30 September 2019 diff hist +373 m Medicare Advantage No edit summary
11:2211:22, 30 September 2019 diff hist +556 Medicare Advantage The primary purpose of two sets of changes I made Sept 30, 2019 was to provide recently released 2020 data and to note -- in answer to a request for citations -- that almost all the data in this and earlier versions can be primarily sourced to HHS and CMS itself; it makes no sense, as earlier versions did, to refer to Kaiser -- the leading non-profit Part C sponsor -- when Kaiser itself just gets its data from HHS and CMS; other references are years old (left some in/took some out)
10:3510:35, 30 September 2019 diff hist −1,341 Medicare Advantage Shortened intro by moving relevant info to Benefits and Costs sections, updated with 2020 data released in September 2019, and deleted three sections with only a sentence each and six year old out of date references
09:4009:40, 30 September 2019 diff hist −3,068 Medicare Advantage Intro updated with projected 2020 numbers released in Sept 2019 by HHS and other publicly available info; History section simplified by deleting paragraphs full of now 10 year old data and adding the 2015-2018 data in the most recent Trustees report

13:3013:30, 27 August 2019 diff hist 0 Medicare (United States) →Costs and funding challenges: fixed formerly/formally typo in the IPAB section, which should be totally deleted
13:2613:26, 27 August 2019 diff hist +77 m Medicare (United States) →Medicare supplement (Medigap) policies
13:2013:20, 27 August 2019 diff hist −10 m Medicare (United States) →Financing
13:1413:14, 27 August 2019 diff hist +20 Medicare (United States) →History: make the description totally chronological
13:0713:07, 27 August 2019 diff hist +11 m Medicare (United States) No edit summary
13:0513:05, 27 August 2019 diff hist +532 Medicare (United States) rearranged two sentences to explain source of OOP data better; deleted "or both" as a person would almost never choose "both" a public Part C plan and additional private insurance

17:4517:45, 22 July 2019 diff hist +84 Medicare Part D →Criticisms: all old out of date politically motivated misinformation--thing about candidate Obama should be deleted as well as whole section
17:4217:42, 22 July 2019 diff hist −9 Medicare Part D →Impact on beneficiaries: should simply delete this section; everyone loves it; it's working great; this is old news that appears to have a political ax to grind
17:4117:41, 22 July 2019 diff hist +20 Medicare Part D →Program costs: changed the last paragraph of the first section to take out the year specific information previous included; the rough breakdown stays the same year to year
17:3217:32, 22 July 2019 diff hist +107 Medicare Part D →History: I added the last sentence in the first graph simply so I could add a comment that this whole section should be eliminated. The information in the first graph is elsewhere and as for the rest, even if true, who cares -- particularly all the stuff about smuggling drugs from Canada (which I doubt are ture)
17:2617:26, 22 July 2019 diff hist +51 m Medicare Part D →Costs to beneficiaries
17:2217:22, 22 July 2019 diff hist +16 m Medicare Part D →Plans offered
17:1817:18, 22 July 2019 diff hist −26 Medicare Part D →Eligibility and enrollment: LIS beneficiaries can no longer change once a month this changed in 2019 I believe or possibly 2018
15:3715:37, 22 July 2019 diff hist +8 m Medicare Part D No edit summary
15:3515:35, 22 July 2019 diff hist +197 Medicare Part D https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2690175/ this link is a good source of the historical data, particularly Table 1
15:2815:28, 22 July 2019 diff hist +26 Medicare Part D Important to note that all proposals had private, not goverment, negotiation of drug prices
15:2715:27, 22 July 2019 diff hist +548 Medicare Part D change fact that Bush proposed Part D initially in 2003. Actually Clinton did in 1999

19:4319:43, 30 April 2019 diff hist +1,259 Medicare (United States) Numbers changes consistent with the 2019 Medicare Trustees report, addition of the Trustees' "funding warning," and light editing

13:1413:14, 29 April 2019 diff hist +4 Medicare (United States) Update coverage statistics based on April 22, 2019 Annual Medicare Trustees Report
13:1013:10, 29 April 2019 diff hist +377 Medicare (United States) Changed last sentence of second paragraph to clear up misconception that U.S. Medicare is "single payer."
13:0813:08, 29 April 2019 diff hist −377 Medicare (United States) Undid revision 894695248 by Dennisbyron (talk) because the descriptor was wrong. Am redoing correcting the descriptor Tag: Undo
13:0613:06, 29 April 2019 diff hist +377 Medicare (United States) change last sentence of first paragraph on the often misleading statement that U.S. Medicare is "single payer"

13:4213:42, 6 April 2019 diff hist +18 m Medicare (United States) →Part B: Medical insurance
13:3613:36, 6 April 2019 diff hist −33 Medicare (United States) →Part A: Hospital/hospice insurance: Someone had asked for a citation of the sentence "These coverage amounts increase or decrease yearly on 1st day of the year." It would be in Section 18 of the SS Act if someone wants it badly but the statement is incredibly self evident. Why not also make citation request for the statement that premiums go up every year?
13:2613:26, 6 April 2019 diff hist 0 m Medicare (United States) →History
13:2113:21, 6 April 2019 diff hist +38 Medicare (United States) added requested citations, primarily the Medicare Trustees and the MedPAC organization (MedPAC is a creation of Congress that acts in terms of Medicare the way the CBO acts for the rest of government
13:1613:16, 6 April 2019 diff hist −372 Medicare (United States) removed two sentences that said something about the government setting rates, and making some distinction between billable charges and... (cannot figure out what the sentences were trying to say). Whatever, the governement setting rates only applies -- sort of -- to two of the four Parts of Medicare and thine thing about billable charges is true of all healthcare insurance and is not unique to Medicare

16:1016:10, 28 December 2018 diff hist +18 Medicare Advantage changes -- hope I got them all -- to replace "insurer" with "sponsor." Most public Part C Medicare Advantage plans and other Part C plans are not sponsored by "insurers."
14:1214:12, 28 December 2018 diff hist +423 m Medicare Advantage No edit summary
13:1013:10, 28 December 2018 diff hist +805 Medicare Advantage Again, mostly to add the "new" Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment information but I also note that many references to Kaiser could be replaced by the original CMS sources; all Kaiser does is reprint CMS data
12:2912:29, 28 December 2018 diff hist +643 Medicare Advantage Mostly minor changes to update to late 2018 but major change that the Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment period (January - March 2019) has been re-introduced (after it was removed by PPACA)

21:4221:42, 10 December 2018 diff hist +14 m Medicare (United States) No edit summary
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