Posted on 02/20/2011 3:50:27 PM PST by george76
The federal Medicare program is popular among older Americans, but that doesn't mean it's easy to navigate.
Medicare is a complex web of health benefits serving more than 46 million seniors and disabled people.
It's easy to get confused, says Joe Baker, president of the Medicare Rights Center in New York. For instance, because the age to collect full Social Security benefits "is moving up to age 67, a lot of folks think Medicare eligibility has changed as well, but it hasn't," he says. "It's still at 65."
Here are four common Medicare misconceptions:
1. Medicare works like private health insurance.
2. Medicare provides free or cheap health care.
3. Medicare covers everything.
4. You can sign up for Medicare at any time.
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You joined late, eat it up!
Haha...got you beat...!
No, they are guaranteed billions to keep the service going. How can they lose money when they are propped up by the Federal Government?
Doubt that, i’ll be 74 shortly.
No doubt you have me on age...just not on joining date! (heh). I will bow to your advanced knowledge gained through experience with pleasure!
Amen! Great comment.
I commend you for giving up all your Veteran benefits.
Haven’t used them and don’t intend to...
You are the kind of Gimme Generation azzhat that I despise. < spit>
Nobody OWES you anything, and what you paid in comes nowhere close to what you will suck out of the system.
Forgive me Lord - for I have sinned.
How much do you receive each month from the gum’t?
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