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Even if you can see your current doctor under Aetna's Medicare Advantage Plan, he will be restricted in how much time he can spend with you and what tests he can order.

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The MA "scheme" is finally getting some light from policy makers. As you stated in your remarks to the NY City Council, the MA health plans use multiple tools to "save" money for Medicare, but then risk stratify reports to indicate that the health plan has "sicker" members - thus increasing their reimbursement from Medicare. Thank you.

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Thank you for standing firm--and outside in the cold!--and thank you for turning around in Newark and getting that train back to NYC so your invaluable testimony is on the record.

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Thank you Mr. Potter. I heard your testimony on Jan. 9th and think it was crucial to showing what is really going on.

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Incredibly thrilled you testified at our Jan 9th Hearing dear Mr. Potter. Saying I'm grateful to you and Marianne Pizzitola doesn't suffice. My husband and I are in awe with your bravery and steadfast voice to lead the fight against the deceptive and dangerous privatization of healthcare throughout our nation. Being captured by insurers, who are poised to monopolize the system, is absolutely NOT an option. Here in NYC we are are now in this ferocious battle of our lives -and proud to join you, Marianne, and all our dear fellow men and women -young, adults, and seniors- across our country who have hoped to fight this horrific evil.

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They should be privatized. The state doesn’t have the resources To maintain the plans they maintain. You can’t raise taxes anymore the burden is too high. Besides wouldn’t citizens rather pay for amenities over a retirement plan for annex worker who most likely lives in some backwater southern state. Stop driving citizens away and improve the physical quality of the state.

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