{"id":1246109,"date":"2023-10-04T19:06:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=da4176c3ebc4b34a748895165646142f"},"modified":"2023-10-04T19:06:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:06:24","slug":"private-insurers-milk-taxpayers-up-to-140-billion-a-year-via-medicare-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/04\/private-insurers-milk-taxpayers-up-to-140-billion-a-year-via-medicare-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Insurers Milk Taxpayers Up to $140 Billion a Year Via Medicare Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report published Wednesday estimates that privately run, government-funded Medicare Advantage plans are overcharging U.S. taxpayers by up to $140 billion per year, a sum that could be used to completely eliminate Medicare Part B premiums or fully fund Medicare&rsquo;s prescription drug program. Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), an advocacy group that supports transitioning to a single...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/private-insurers-milk-taxpayers-up-to-140-billion-a-year-via-medicare-advantage\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/private-insurers-milk-taxpayers-up-to-140-billion-a-year-via-medicare-advantage\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sum of overcharges could eliminate Medicare Part B premiums or fully fund Medicare&#8217;s prescription drug program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1328,339,8621,35894,4,61324],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246110,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246109\/revisions\/1246110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}