{"id":2582,"date":"2023-11-29T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T19:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2025-07-13T14:31:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T18:31:54","slug":"the-american-prospect-the-medicare-advantage-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/2023\/11\/29\/the-american-prospect-the-medicare-advantage-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Prospect: The Medicare Advantage Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/download.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/download.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/download.png 225w, https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/download-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>The Medicare Advantage Trap<\/p>\n<p>BY MATTHEW CUNNINGHAM-COOK<\/p>\n<p>Coffey, the retired EMT from New Hampshire, told the Prospect that she has paid $6,000 in out-of-pocket expenses this year under a Medicare Advantage program. \u201cIf I could go to Medigap, I would have better access to care, I wouldn\u2019t be forced to give up Boston doctors,\u201d she said. \u201cThese insurance companies are allowed to reap as much profit as possible for as little service as they can get away with. They pocket all of our money and they don\u2019t pay for anything, they sit there and deny and delay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/health\/2023-11-29-medicare-advantage-trap\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading on The American Prospect<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PXL_20231031_223521612.PORTRAIT2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PXL_20231031_223521612.PORTRAIT2-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1803\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Medicare Advantage Trap BY MATTHEW CUNNINGHAM-COOK Coffey, the retired EMT from New Hampshire, told the Prospect that she has paid $6,000 in out-of-pocket expenses this year under a Medicare Advantage program. \u201cIf I could go to Medigap, I would have better access to care, I wouldn\u2019t be forced to give up Boston doctors,\u201d she [&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-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","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=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2587,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions\/2587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}