You have an urgent medical problem, so you go to the hospital, where you remain for several days. Your doctor then recommends a short stay in a nursing home for rehabilitation. Because you’re covered by Medicare, you assume those nursing home costs will be paid for, since Medicare typically covers up to 100 days of … Read more
We’re still in open enrollment season for Medicare – it continues through early December 2017 – and maybe you’ve decided, even though you’re 65, that you don’t need to enroll because you’re feeling fine and don’t need health insurance. Well, this recent article from the news website Reuters says you’d better do your homework, because … Read more
Ah, October: the weather is cooler, the nights are longer, the leaves are turning color, and it’s Medicare Open Enrollment Time. (That may explain why you see so many older adults walking around with perplexed expressions on their faces at this time of year.) Medicare Open Enrollment for the 2018 calendar year begins October 15 … Read more
Few government programs will mean more to future retirees than Medicare – and few are more misunderstood. Every time we think “everybody understand Medicare,” we’re reminded in one of our AgingOptions seminars or on our weekly radio program that there are countless numbers of people out there approaching retirement with no basic knowledge of what … Read more
In the midst of the debate over health care – a national argument that never seems to subside – one school of thought popular with mostly liberal politicians such as Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is a policy which is being called “Medicare for All.” America, argues Senator Sanders and other proponents, is ready for “single-payer” … Read more
If you’re getting closer and closer to age 65 – or if you’re over 65 and about to leave your employer’s health care plan for the last time – then Medicare enrollment is about to become a reality for you. During a window of about 6 or 7 months, starting three months before your 65th … Read more
A few weeks ago we read this piece on the Huffington Post: a letter written to retirement expert Jim Miller by a man about to retire with a younger spouse. “When I retire in a few months at 65 and go on Medicare,” this man wrote, “what are my wife’s (insurance) options?” (His wife is … Read more
Here’s a new wrinkle many may not have heard about until now. Apparently officials from the Social Security Administration are calling people who are delaying benefits until age 70, offering them a cash incentive if they’ll file for benefits early. Does that sound like a scam to you? It does to a lot of people, and it did … Read more
It’s no secret that healthcare costs in America are on the rise – so much so that the price tag for health-related expenses now makes up 17 percent of the entire U.S. gross domestic product. With so much money on the line, managing our own healthcare expense is critical, especially for the 58 million Americans … Read more
It’s an all too common scenario: a senior citizen is admitted to the hospital. The patient spends a few days getting tests and care, but when it’s time for discharge he or she is not well enough to go home, so the patient is sent to a rehabilitation facility. Imagine the shock for the patient … Read more
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