There are three things about it that Obama and Democrats loathe: (1) It's a Republican program, enacted as part of President Bush's prescription drug bill in 2003; (2) it brings free market competition and private, profit-making insurers into Medicare; (3) it uses a pool of money they'd rather spend on other programs. After Humana wrote its MA patients about the possible effect of the cuts, Baucus asked the Obama administration to bar insurers from communicating with seniors. Congress is considering significant cuts to Medicare Advantage now," it said, "and your Members of Congress will want to know why this program is valuable to you because those cuts could mean higher costs and benefit reductions to many on Medicare Advantage.