> 
> J.E. asks:  ...how your Medicare is funded...
> 

Medicare, a government program mainly for people age 65 and over, pays most of 
the medical expenses of the enrollee. Enrollees pays a monthly premium. The 
program is largely funded by payroll taxes.

Medicare Advantage is a corporate carve-out. The enrollee is not directly in 
Medicare. Instead, she is enrolled with a private insurance corporation. The 
government Medicare fund reimburses the corporation for medical expenses of 
enrollees. The way it is all set up, the government pays more per Advantage 
enrollee than it does per direct enrollee, to the profit of the insurance 
corporation.


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