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"15 billion dollars a year we spent on subsidizing our own businesses," Senator Barack Obama said. "under the Medicare program, it doesn't help older people get better. "At the moment we give $15 billion a year in grants to Medicare underwriters," Obama said. "Doesn't work better with commercial underwriters.

This was a Giveaway and part of the whole point is because advocates are able to design the way Medicare works. "Obama talks about the Medicare Advantage (MA) plan, which will pay a fixed fee to Medicare beneficiary privately-held insurers to treat them. Designed as a means of controlling expenses, it was based on the hypothesis that competitive bidding between HMOs, as well as among professional operators and other privately owned schemes, would reduce overhead.

Indeed, the MA schemes have always been costing the administration more per recipient than the conventional Medicare expenses. Approximately 18 per cent of the recipients now fall under the MA-plants. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, an impartial congress agent, estimates that the MA programme in 2008 was 13% more expensive than conventional Medicare.

The Commonwealth Fund's Commonwealth Fund estimated that this means an additional $1,000 on aggregate for each individual in the MA programme, for a nationwide aggregate of more than $8.5 billion last year (and a combined $33 billion from 2004 to 2008). Insurers have argued that those who participate in MA programmes receive better services.

"Among the most important things to keep in minds is that Medicare Advantage provides extra advantages and amenities that are not available in conventional fees for services," said Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesperson for American health insurance companies. Cirkelbach arguments that the scheme provides better auditory, visual and tooth cover and a disease-management-plan.

The MA schemes have also proved useful in some areas of the countryside where there is a lack of healthcare service provision. There are some reimbursement schemes that reimburse all or part of their customers' premiums, Part B Medicare, which can help saving individuals hundreds of dollars a year. Compromise is that often recipients limit themselves to using hospital and physician services in the planetwork.

Whilst the beneficiaries' expenses are often lower for MA schemes, this is not always the case. Certain care facilities, such as rehabilitating care homes, may be more costly than those of Medicare. Mr. Brian Biles, George Washington University Department of Health Policy Professor and former Commonwealth Fund senior VP, said that while MA attendees can get about 13% more value from additional MA benefit, they will cost about 13% more.

It is therefore not necessarily more effective than the Medicare tradition, only more expensive, Biles argued. "So why would some folks get an additional $1,000 in Medicare insurance and others not? Saying in a report before the House of Representatives on June 28, 2007, Peter R. Orszag, director of the Citizens' Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (CBO), said Medicare actually subsidises the additional costs of the Medicare Advantage Programme.

"While many Medicare Advantage programmes provide illness control, nursing co-ordination and preventative nursing programmes, there is little information on the extent to which the programmes achieve better results than the Medicare programme," he said. Congressional Budget Office estimated that if the administration refuses to finance MA schemes more than Medicare's cost, tax payers would be saving $9.5 billion in 2009, $54 billion in 2009-2012 and $150 billion over 10 years.

Jose Antos, a healthcare professional at the American Enterprise Institute, thinks that if the extra funding for MA schemes is removed or greatly cut, "half the schemes will be cancelled in two years. "That doesn't sits well with folks in those schemes, he said, and it's likely to be strongly opposed by members of Congress from country counties - Republicans and Democrats equally - who have a high proportion of the components in the MA-programme.

He also criticizes Obama's description of the additional cash spent on MA as a promotional gift to insurers. "Generally, the additional funds spent on these schemes benefit the beneficiary to some extent," Anton said. "Of course, some of this sticks to the finger of the insurer," Antos said.

It is Obama to interpret the additional payment for the MA programmes of the insurer as "subsidies" or "giveaways". "But Obama is on sound soil when he says that the administration is spending about $15 billion a year on the additional MA programme than on Medicare, especially if we move forward in the years ahead.