Medicare Advantage is a scam right-wing politicians enacted to partially privatize Medicare on the path toward completely privatizing Medicare out of existence. Advantage plans are not regulated like Medicare plans. Advantage plans deny authorizations and payments at alarming rates... something real Medicare plans don't/can't do(not to say it never happens but it is near always due to an obvious mistake made by the Dr or the patient.Adabatage plans scared me off. Any catastrophic health issues can quickly drain the account and lead to astronomical bills. Cool if one is positive he'll not have any wild rides, but one stroke, cancer on any level, and the advantage plans leave the house to the state welfare dept. IMO the only advantage to the advantage plan is those in good health and profits for the insurer. They're not magnanimous entities.