The Truth About Medicare Advantage: A Corporate Scam Disguised as Choice

[AZJonnie]

2. The general idea is fine, but the NAME is terrible.

For the exact reasons you allude to It rubs everybody the wrong way, basically.

The far better angle, which I guarantee would poll at least 25% higher, is fighting for a public option. This whole idea that it's "unfair to private companies if the government competes against them" is fucking garbage, especially when the product is something entirely essential for life itself, like health insurance. It was promulgated by rich GOP/Libertarian assholes to make sure they could build monopolies and ream the public, going back basically centuries