Some CT retirees criticize Medicare Advantage, push for options

Some CT retirees criticize Medicare Advantage, push for options

Medicare Advantage — a type of Medicare plan administered by private companies as opposed to the federal government — has come under fire in recent years for denying and delaying seniors’ access to certain care.  James Russell, a former sociology professor at Eastern Connecticut State University, and Gloria Bent, the wife of a former physicist at the University of Connecticut, have firsthand experience. They are both enrolled in a Medicare Advan…