The Community Catalyst report cited hee is very deceptive and both Catalyst and Warren are poor advocates for us seniors. In its analysis, Community Catalyst purposely leaves out 200,000-300,000 Massachusetts seniors — disproportionately the poorest of us seniors — on Part C Medicare health plans. These are the seniors who are already getting the global-payment/coordinated-care-type plans glorified by Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) advocates and the Massachusetts political hacks that recently gave us our new price-fixing legislation.

PPACA of course is the law that is cutting over $700 billion from what should be spent on Medicare over the next 10 years — or kept in the Medicare Part A trust fund if not needed. PPACA is taking the $700 billion from Medicare and spending it instead on insurance for non-seniors (see the Medicare actuary, all annual reports since 2010).

As for the so-called drug savings touted by the Warren front, in Massachusetts they are almost non-existent. None of the Democrats statistics take into account what Massachusetts Prescription Advantage or MassHealth pays for seniors on Medicare. Assistant HHS Director of Planning has said the effects are not factored into the calculations Catalyst and these politcal operatives paid by Warren are using.