Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/13/2025
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
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The Naked Profiteering that’s Destroying Our Medicare and Healthcare System in America
Medicare Advantage is not Medicare. And in many cases, it isn’t an advantage either. Medicare Advantage is the misleading name given to the private, corporatized portion of Medicare – the portion in which tax dollars are funneled through private insurance companies to provide enrollees a private insurance plan. How are those Medicare dollars being spent by these private insurers versus the public, traditional Medicare program? This presentation will provide detailed facts about how corporate Advantage plans are robbing our Medicare fund, how they are impacting access to care for enrollees and how we can work together to improve and expand traditional Medicare to make it a financial option for all Medicare recipients.
Rose Roach is the National Coordinator for the Labor Campaign for Single Payer and Chair of Healthcare for All Minnesota. Ms. Roach retired in 2023 as the Executive Director of the MN Nurses Association after working in the labor movement for 34 years. For more than 2 decades, Ms. Roach has been involved in the healthcare justice movement, both as a national speaker and trainer. She has served on Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton’s Healthcare Financing Task Force as well as Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s Lowering Pharmaceutical Costs Task Force. In 2016 and 2020, Ms. Roach was recognized twice as one of the Minnesota Physician’s Magazine’s top 100 leaders in healthcare, was the first recipient of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s 2023 Women’s Trailblazer award, and she received the 2019 DFL’s Paul Wellstone Lifetime Commitment to Organized Labor award and the 2024 Paul and Sheila Wellstone Social Justice Award from the Minnesota Nurses Association.
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