Medicare Archives - Living with Scleroderma

Merrily (NOT) We Enroll Along

Evelyn Herwitz — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 13:00:03 +0000

For those of us in the U.S. who are 65 and older, these weeks leading up to December 7 are our annual opportunity to choose a new Medicare plan. It’s called open enrollment season, but it’s not a season to be jolly. No, it’s a season to either stick with what works or bang your […]

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Countdown

Evelyn Herwitz — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 12:00:03 +0000

As of next Monday, I will be officially on Medicare. Getting there has been long anticipated. But the process has not been easy, as anyone who has gone through it can attest. The plans are complicated, the rules byzantine, the language seemingly designed to confuse (though more likely just written in so many layers that […]

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First Attempt

Evelyn Herwitz — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:00:47 +0000

I’m turning 65 this April. The time has come to apply for Medicare. Especially after a recent scare—when our COBRA plan failed to contact our insurance that we’d renewed our coverage for 2019 and we had no active health insurance for about a week—I don’t want to take a chance on missing any deadlines. Back […]

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