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Even though open enrollment to Medicare isn’t until October the ‘Advantage’ plans are back advertising on television.
They have that much money. The single largest governmentally sanctioned medical fraud in history is still going on strong because the medical insurance industry, with U.S. government subsidy and approval, is making eighteen to twenty-five billion dollars a year in providing supposed replacement coverage (sometimes fraudulently calling itself Plan C, as there is no Plan C in Medicare…only Plans A, B, and D) for Medicare’s Plan B.
Yes, that’s 18,000,000,000 to 25,000,000,000, not including the four billion the companies get from the government for providing such services. Aurora, Humana, even USAA, all these supposedly honest companies are in on it. Think about it. Medicare does not operate on a for-profit basis, but these Advantage companies do.
That means they must make at least a 30 percent profit on Part B premiums collected. Let’s say that you pay on average $1500 a year. The for-profit companies must not pay out much more than a thousand each year for every premium payer. For dental? For vision? In giving you some money back? For doctor’s visits? So, instead of doing that, and operating at a loss, they give you a policy, replacing Medicare Part B, with a policy that covers just about nothing.
Stop playing their game and get hold of the Social Security Administration to get your Part B back (you can only do that during the enrollment period between October and December, however).
The Lake Geneva Regional News raises it price per issue retail from $1,50 to $3.00.
That’s big news for a small-town newspaper. The Geneva Shore Report, the other Lake Geneva Newspaper charges only $.50 per issue and that price is not changing (in fact, the GSR doesn’t really collect the price it charges!).
What’s happening at the Regional News that brought this rather stunning and massive increase about? The staff of the GSR doesn’t know but the new editor coming in to take over, Trevor Devlin (formerly the most excellent sportswriter for the paper) coming in and inquiries will be made as quickly as possible in hopes of explaining or resolving this rather momentous financial event. Incidentally, the new editor of the Lake Geneva Regional Newspaper is named Trevor Devlin, and he’s the former sports editor of that same paper. He’s bright, tough, and aggressively friendly.
Whatever changes are coming for the Regional News are likely to be good ones, as this new ‘force of nature’ brought in to accommodate modern times for print newspapers in Lake Geneva, will be gifted with solving the problem of how to increase circulation of the product just after doubling the gross price of the product. Trevor gives every indication of being up to the task.
The Geneva Shore Report wishes the Regional News well, as the GSR’s own success is linked with the product the Regional News produces. The GSR is the ‘other’ news, but not the city’s chosen newspaper. That paper is the Regional News and the GSR wants to do what it can to make sure that everything kind of stays the way it is. Most towns and cities the size of Lake Geneva doesn’t have a single printed newspaper, much less two of them, both independently owned and with decidedly different opinions over just about everything.
