Middletown Center opposition is more than just a loud minority: Letters

It's time for an improved Medicare for All program

The federal government could have fixed the gaps in traditional government-run Medicare and created an improved Medicare for All single payer program, but instead, paid private middlemen billions to offer Medicare Advantage plans.

Seniors were lured into buying heavily advertised, “cheaper,” heavily subsidized Medicare Advantage plans while the private corporations that offered these plans saw their profits soar.

Unfortunately, costs, utilization, and oversight increased, and corporations began abandoning these once lucrative plans – and the seniors who relied on them.

In Rhode Island, UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare Advantage plans stopped covering patients who seek care at four major RI hospitals in July. Blue Cross Blue Shield of RI (BC