Trump Regime posts claimed June 2025 Medicare enrollment; over 51% now enrolled in Advantage plans
Mon, 10/06/2025 - 9:31pm
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services just published updated enrollment data for Medicare, adding June 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 June 2025:
- Total Medicare beneficiaries are up to 69.0 million (up ~51K month over month)
- Traditional/FFM Medicare beneficiaries are at 33.63 million (down ~20K m/m)
- Medicare Advantage beneficiaries reached 35.35 million (up ~71K m/m)
- 12.02 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 a year and a half 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.
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