{"id":1915,"date":"2024-04-03T18:35:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T22:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2024-04-06T11:42:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T15:42:13","slug":"proud-to-have-played-a-role-in-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/2024\/04\/03\/proud-to-have-played-a-role-in-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Proud to have played a role in this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/advocates-hold-signs-during-a-news-conference-on-medicare-advantage-plans.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/advocates-hold-signs-during-a-news-conference-on-medicare-advantage-plans-520x172.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"172\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1922\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Campaigners Beat &#8216;Greedy&#8217; Insurance Giants Exploiting Medicare Advantage<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As insurance companies&#8217; stock fell 6-12% on Tuesday in response to the Biden administration&#8217;s Medicare Advantage announcement, one healthcare campaigner celebrated that the U.S. government didn&#8217;t cave to the &#8220;greedy&#8221; industry&#8217;s pressure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The private insurance industry is used to getting its way, but this year we out-organized them,&#8221; declared Aija Nemer-Aanerud, the People&#8217;s Action Health Care for All campaign director.<\/p>\n<p>Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are an alternative to traditional coverage under the federal health insurance program for people with disabilities and those age 65 or older. 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Insurance Giants Exploiting Medicare Advantage As insurance companies&#8217; stock fell 6-12% on Tuesday in response to the Biden administration&#8217;s Medicare Advantage announcement, one healthcare campaigner celebrated that the U.S. government didn&#8217;t cave to the &#8220;greedy&#8221; industry&#8217;s pressure. &#8220;The private insurance industry is used to getting its way, but this year we out-organized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}