5. Traditional Medicare: Still the Choice of Seniors MA Traditional Medicare Hispanic seniors 25% 75% Asian seniors 14% 86% African-American seniors 13% 87% Low-income seniors 10% 90% Source: AHIP 2007 3X 6X 8X 9X
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10. Bush Administration and Republican Congressional Leaders Why so intent on protecting windfall overpayments? Two words . . . P R I V A T I Z E Medicare
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12. Think We’re Kidding? Newt Gingrich: “ Now, we don’t get rid of [traditional Medicare] in Round 1 because we don’t think that’s politically smart. But we believe it’s going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it . . . .” Source: Gingrich 1995
18. Percent of Low-Income Seniors, by Race Hispanic API African American White 19.9% Source: Kaiser Family Foundation 2007 23.2% 12.6% 7.9%
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20. Hispanic API African American White Percent of Children Uninsured, by Race Source: Census 2005 21.9% 12.5% 12.1% 7.2%
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23. Key questions to ponder: Is it better to overpay MA insurers . . . OR Is it better to overpay MA insurers . . . OR Is it better to overpay MA insurers . . . OR Is it better to overpay MA insurers . . . OR Stop Medicare’s privatization? Subsidize poor seniors? Reduce premiums? Cover uninsured kids?