Bipartisan Lawmakers Aim to Fix Medicare Advantage

The popular alternative to traditional Medicare is plagued by high costs and denial rates, House members say.

A man waits in a hospital in Irvine, Calif., on July 8, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

Medicare Advantage has serious problems, according to a bipartisan group of lawmakers who aim to improve, not dismantle, the wildly popular alternative to traditional Medicare coverage.

House members from both parties expressed frustration about the Advantage program, also called Medicare C, in a July 22 hearing of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee.