Trump Regime posts claimed March 2025 Medicare enrollment; 51% now enrolled in Advantage plans

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services just published updated enrollment data for Medicare, adding March 2025 to the data archive.

Whether the data posted since January 20, 2025 is accurate or not, I can't say for certain, but at least they're updating it...and so far, at least, I don't see anything in their monthly reports which is setting off any obvious red flags.

In any event, according to the latest report, as of March 2025:

• Total Medicare beneficiaries are up to 68.5 million (up ~39K month over month)
• Traditional/FFM Medicare beneficiaries are at 33.53 million (down ~31K m/m)
• Medicare Advantage beneficiaries reached 35.12 million (up ~70K m/m)
• 11.96 million Medicare enrollees (around 17.4% of the total) were "Dual Eligibles"...that is, enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid.

After crossing the 50% threshold over a year ago, Medicare Advantage has now been, for good or for bad, the default option for Medicare enrollment ever since, with over 51% of all enrollees now utilizing Advantage plans.

It's also worth noting that, given the Musk/Trump Admin's obsession with erasing any reference or data regarding gender, race or ethnicity, the Medicare enrollment reports still include breakouts of those demographic factors.