Almost 40 percent of all Medicare beneficiaries are now on private Medicare Advantage plans.

“It is true that a person may be able to lower monthly costs by enrolling in one of these plans,” Kay Tillow wrote last year in an article titled Beyond the Medicare Advantage Scam.

In the run up to the Democratic National Convention, 116 California delegates for Bernie Sanders have signed an open letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, urging her to hold an up or down vote now on HR 1384, the Medicare for All Bill that would establish a national health insurance program to cover the health care needs of all U.S. residents.