AOC on Medicare Advantage: In theory, agents and brokers work with everyday people enrolling in a plan and are there to help them pick the best plan for their health, right?
That’s how it’s supposed to be set up.
What gets complicated is that agents and brokers are paid by health insurers for enrolling individuals in specific plans.
And so you’re supposed to have agents and brokers talking to your mom or your grandparent, saying, “We’d like to enroll you. We think this plan is what’s best for you.”
But what that person doesn’t know is that UnitedHealthcare is saying, “We’ll give you a vacation if you enroll people in our plan,” or, “We’ll give you a couple of extra hundred dollars if you enroll someone in a Blue Cross Blue Shield plan, a United plan, or any number of other plans.”
And in your testimony, you stated that agents and brokers received $10 billion in this kind of compensation in 2022 alone, right?
That’s $10 billion in taxpayer money. A lot of it is being funneled through these corporations. And so that is money that is not going to care. It’s going to perks, trips to Boca, and financial incentives for brokers to enroll people out of traditional Medicare and into for-profit Medicare Advantage plans.
MARYLAND DATA CENTERS!
There are 52 data centers in Maryland.
- Frederick has 18, more than any county.
- Baltimore has 14.
- Residential electricity is up 44 percent since 2020, & the grid operator’s own monitor blames the centers first.
Bipartisan calls for a moratorium.
as a rule of thumb I don't eat at restaurants with a "kids" section of the menu
you also won't catch me there if there's more than one location
these two things usually skip you over the sysco foolishness
When someone at a convention asked if Val Kilmer was difficult to work with, Michael Biehn said, “I don’t know.” Then paused and added, “I never met Val Kilmer while filming Tombstone (1993). I only met Doc Holliday.”
That’s how perfectly cast he was.
People poke fun at “oh they’re working with a fashion brand on space suits” whenever the Prada partnership is brought up. No, they’re not working with Prada the fashion brand. They’re working with Prada, the advanced textile manufacturer.