Re: WHY? (Re: One-pot dish)

fos@sdf.org wrote:

On 2024-11-26, jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:

On 11/25/2024 10:47 AM, fos@sdf.org wrote:

On 2024-11-23, Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com> wrote:

On 2024-11-23, jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:

On 11/22/2024 12:38 PM, Carol wrote:

fos@sdf.org wrote:

  

On 2024-11-21, Carol <cshenk@virginia-beach.com> wrote:

 

Here's my own OT.  Medicare season for all the supplement scam
packages here is in full swing.  The spammers are even worse

this >>>>>>> year.
 

my wife turned 65 this year. does the stream of medicare

related >>>>>> postal mail ever slow down or even stop? at our house
it goes >>>>>> directly from the mailbox to the recycle bin. why do
people hate >>>>>> trees so much?
  

Fos, perhaps you should sign onto Medicare.gov and elect to only

get >>>> email notifications.  Save a tree!
 

It's not that.  It's the unending stream of Medicare supplement
providers.  Every insurance company doing business in the state
feels the need to mail brochures and call potential customers.

 

i thought because my wife signed up for only part A since she's

still >> on my insurance from work, that we'd be spared all the sales

literature. i am a silly, silly man. :facepalm:

 

As far as I know you can't just sign up for Part A.  You get Part A
& B automatically when you turn 65.  It's the supplement plans
they're yapping at you about.  Even though she's on your insurance
plan from work, Medicare becomes Primary and your insurance at work
becomes Secondary.  Anything not covered by Medicare but is also
covered by the Secondary insurance plan cover the rest of it.
Subject, of course, to deductibles, etc.

 
i had to enroll her in medicare within plus or minus 3 months
from her 65th birthday. part A is no cost to us. i specifically
declined part B which had a cost of $174.70 a month for the year
2024. there are penalties for not enrolling in part B within the
three month period but we have an exception because she's on my
group health plan from my employer and can enroll in a special
enrollment period when she no longer is.
 
how exactly it works with my existing insurance i don't know.
part A is intended to help with hospitalization. if she's
hospitalized we will present both her medicare and group
insurance info and let them sort it out. then i'll know.

Thats why I say call Social Security (not your HR department, just SS
office) and make sure the insurance she has is considered 'creditable'.
She can continue if they agree. It's not hard to just call.  If you are
under 8 months, it's fixable easy, it seems.