Premiums for Popular Medicare Advantage Plans Only Inching Up

Bulletin Today | PoliticsBy Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar of the Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Monthly premiums for popular private insurance plans through Medicare are only inching up next year, the Obama administration said Sept. 19, trumpeting good news for skeptical older voters on a closely watched election-year issue. Republican Mitt Romney has warned that cuts in President Barack Obama’s health care law would hobble programs such as Medicare Advantage, the private insurance option that’s a thriving part of Medicare. But deputy Medicare administrator Jonathan …