[oh8eleven]

and with one more raise in our secondary health care and we will drop it and take our chances..
Have you looked into Medicare Supplemental plans?
Depending on where you live, some plans are as cheap as $50-$70 a month.
Plan N, is the most popular and runs about $90-$120 a month.

[ridesthemiles]

For some of us on SS, that premium represents 10% +_ of our monthly check. $120 a month is is over 11% of my check each month. I never applied for part B or Part D.

The last raise we got represented $39 to me & the prior amount ws frozen for 3 years. The cost of my propane alone has eaten up that increase by 300%.

[ErnBatavia]

Wifey and I are 8 days apart, and both turn 65 in a couple of months.....one of the good things about Kalifornia is periodic two hour seminars on Medicare from our 'department of aging' or some such. We went and got ALL our questions and any confusions addressed.

We're signed up with the Plan F supplemental, mainly because it's the top of the line plan - and the whole ball of wax (A, B, D, F) will cost us around $7000 less per year than the current gouging we're experiencing.

During the years when we were caregivers for my late parents (who had a Plan F), I never wrote one check for any medical expense; and those were constant in their case.

[haircutter]

unfortunately in my zip code there is only ONE plan and it is an HMO..we now have Mutual of Omaha and last year they raised our premiums twice..
It is embarrassing what Medicare pays of your bill and the Doctors are forced to accept..

SAD that your zip code is what determines what Insurance you can have...we live in a rural area of Southwestern Pennsylvania and have been told there are six companies we can choose from...isn't that just great???