by The Medicare Gal | Aug 12, 2019 | General Medicare Information
Enrolling in Medicare? Congratulations! You’ve signed up for Medicare! You’ve successfully managed the http://Medicare.gov or http://SocialSecurity.gov website (or perhaps you signed up a more old fashioned way) and received your Red White and Blue Medicare Card. Here...
by The Medicare Gal | Aug 5, 2019 | Advantage Plans, General Medicare Information, Supplement Insurance Policies
Your Medicare Supplement Plan is NOT a Medicare PPO. I keep running across doctor’s offices that call my clients' Medicare Supplement Insurance Plan a PPO. They think it’s a PPO because they don’t have to be part of the plan’s HMO network in order to use their...
by The Medicare Gal | Jul 19, 2019 | News
Over the last few years, I’ve been asked by several of my clients what I think about “Medicare for All.” Medicare for All is the health-care bill proposed by Bernie Sanders in his 2020 presidential campaign. Since I try to not talk about politics, I’ve been avoiding...
by The Medicare Gal | Jul 10, 2019 | General Medicare Information
I wanted to tell you about what happened to me when I got my second Shingles vaccine shot. But before I tell you about that, let me tell you that I had waited a very long time to get my first shingles vaccine. I put myself on a waiting list before I moved and I moved...
by The Medicare Gal | Jun 28, 2019 | General Medicare Information
Why Medicare for Dummies? I get requests all the time to create an article named “Medicare for Dummies”. I had written an article with the same name but was basically a step by step guide to signing up for Medicare. It wasn’t really “Medicare for Dummies”. How much...
