Medicare Advantage has a proven record of success and is popular with seniors because it provides better services, a higher quality of care and increased care coordination.

The cuts in the Affordable Care Act pose a real danger to seniors keeping their doctors and the benefits that they now have in Medicare Advantage.

The ACA also required CMS, effective January 1, 2012, to provide quality bonus payments to MA plans that achieve four, four and half, and five stars.

It is clear that the Medicare Advantage program is under attack and that these beneficiaries are beginning to feel the effects of the over $300 billion in direct and indirect cuts included in Obamacare.

I would suggest to you that that is pretty disingenuous to say if you like your plan, you can keep it.

I believe there are several existing reform proposals for Medicare Advantage that merit further discussion and feedback.

Individuals are losing coverage that they are happy with and the doctors with which they are comfortable, and this is a tragedy.

What I think happens fundamentally in the Medicare Advantage program is that it allows for more of a freedom of choice among the different competitors in there being the insurance companies that are offering those programs and allows for…

The Affordable Care Act--ACA--as noted in a July 24, 2012, Congressional Budget Office--CBO--report, cut $716 billion from Medicare.

I would like to thank our witnesses for being here today, and I look forward to their testimony regarding how the ACA will impact the Medicare Advantage program.

This is not acceptable.

I believe this is unacceptable.