Release: New National Poll Reaffirms America’s Seniors Overwhelmingly Support Medicare Advantage

New National Poll Reaffirms America’s Seniors Overwhelmingly Support Medicare Advantage

82 percent also believe proposed cuts to the program will harm their financial well-being

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Medicare Advantage Majority (MAM) today released new national polling data, confirming the powerful consensus that America’s seniors want Congress to protect the Medicare Advantage (MA) program. The public opinion survey underscores MA’s profound importance to aging Americans and reveals overwhelming opposition to any effort that would reduce its funding.

MAM’s public opinion survey, fielded in March 2025, polled 1,000 US senior likely voters and consumers nationwide. Topline findings from respondents include:

  • A significant majority of seniors (82%) believe cuts to Medicare Advantage will have a negative impact on their financial well-being.
  • A large majority (71%) across parties want Congress to oppose cutting funding for Medicare Advantage, and 69% are less likely to vote for a member who supports cuts.
  • Nearly all (93%) believe it is important to have a variety of Medicare plan options to meet their health needs.
  • A vast majority (83%) believe the additional benefits provided by MA plans are important to their family members.
  • A majority believe the federal government should increase funding (53%) for MA – not cut it (7%).

“Medicare Advantage keeps proving to be the preferred choice for the majority of seniors across the country and particularly among lower income seniors,” said MAM spokesperson Darren Grubb. “This latest survey makes it crystal clear that seniors are fed up with past cuts to the program and expect Congress to protect the benefits they depend on. Any proposed cuts aren’t just numbers, they have real-life consequences like higher costs, fewer benefits, and less access to trusted doctors.”

Medicare Advantage is a public-private partnership that provides health care to more than 34 million seniors and people with disabilities in the United States. Today, it is the preferred choice for over half (53%) of all Medicare beneficiaries. Unlike traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage offers a more integrated, affordable, and personalized approach to care, often including extra benefits like dental, vision, hearing, and wellness programs. “With a majority of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries living on less than $25,000 annually, they are depending on their elected leaders to stand up and protect the care they count on – and expect them to do so in the weeks and months ahead,” Grubb said.

Medicare Advantage Majority’s nationwide survey amplifies a united front of seniors who oppose any proposed cuts to the program, even as some in Congress are seeking to cut MA benefits. The new national polling data can be found here and follows a survey conducted in October 2024 that further emphasizes the program’s value for seniors and taxpayers.

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About Medicare Advantage Majority (MAM)

Medicare Advantage Majority (MAM) is a 501(c)4 organization dedicated to protecting and strengthening the Medicare Advantage program for 34 million American seniors and people with disabilities – more than half of all eligible Medicare beneficiaries – who depend on it. MAM is powered by the support of local advocates across the country, including beneficiaries, caregivers, health care providers and community leaders.

9 thoughts on “Release: New National Poll Reaffirms America’s Seniors Overwhelmingly Support Medicare Advantage”

  1. Stay away from Medicare Advantage. Must be in network, prior approval, slow to approve and pay. Local hospitals and clinics may not accept

  2. Medicare Advantage plans have worked VERY well for me. If you don’t want to participate, fine with me.

  3. It seems to be a bad deal, as most Medicare Advantage plans don’t work across state lines. I suppose that’s okay for people confined to nursing homes, but if you like to spend winters in Arizona or even weekends in Minneapolis or Omaha, it can really suck if you need medical care outside of South Dakota.

  4. It may help to dispel some of the confusion to know that no Medicare Advantage plan can be offered anywhere in the US unless coverage for all urgent and emergency care is guaranteed anywhere in the US.

    1. so if you are an RV-er, or want to spend six months a year in Arizona or get a second opinion at the Mayo Clinic, you’re just shit-outta-luck, aren’t you? if you require treatment for a long-term illness or a chronic condition, which just about everybody over 65 has, you’ll just have to stay in the state to get it.
      Stop trying to put lipstick on this pig.

  5. as of April 2024 67.3 million people are enrolled in Medicare.
    According to this, 34 million are in Medicare Advantage Plans, or 50.5% of everybody on Medicare, but 82% of them believe that cuts to Medicare Advantage will negatively impact them, and 83% believe Medicare Advantage is important to their family members.

    This suggests that a large number of people, 33 million, are not on a Medicare Advantage plan and many of them don’t even know what it is. But polling has them worried about how cuts to something they are not enrolled in might affect them. Fear-mongering at its finest, that.

  6. American voting public: CUT PROGRAMS, END WASTE. GO TRUMP

    Trump: slashes programs to the bone

    American Public: NO. NOT LIKE THAT. YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO HURT OTHER PEOPLE, NOT ME.

    Are we great again yet?

  7. If you live in a “RV”, I think you should probably find your medical care through someone else in another “RV”.

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