Medicare...maybe we should have stayed home

Tom N wrote:
Your husband should have received a book titled "MEDICARE & YOU 2016".

In the back of that ~190 page book is a listing of ALL the supplemental and part D drug plans that apply to your husband.

You can also access this information on medicare's official website.

https://www.medicare.gov/

Your husband can save lots of money by going to a Medicare Advantage plan. Read all about a Medicare Advantage plan in PART C of the Medicare book or online.

I have a Part C Advantage plan and pay nothing. Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Drug coverage is included. Again I pay nothing. I actually receive $6 more in my monthly SS benefit because the amount Medicare pays my private provider is $6 less than what regular medicare costs the government. My wife has the same Part C plan and she also receives an additional $6 a month in her SS monthly benefit.

I'll add, I have no Medicare card. My private insurer issues a BC/BS card.

I'm 70 and have had a Medicare Advantage Part C plan since I turned 65.

What ever plan your husband chooses he can change, if not satisfied, every Fall during the enrollment period.

-Tom