Trump Regime posts claimed August 2025 Medicare enrollment; over 51% now enrolled in Med Advantage

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services just published updated enrollment data for Medicare, adding July and August 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 August 2025:

• Total Medicare beneficiaries are up to 69.3 million (up ~86K month over month)
• Traditional/FFM Medicare beneficiaries are at 33.79 million (down ~31K m/m)
• Medicare Advantage beneficiaries reached 35.49 million (up ~55K m/m)
• 11.73 million Medicare enrollees (around 16.9% of the total) were "Dual Eligibles"...that is, enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid.

The only number which seems odd is the 375K drop in Dual Eligibles...I'm not sure what to make of that.

After crossing the 50% threshold nearly two years 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.