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Visiting Mayo Clinic | Last Active: Nov 24 10:04am | Replies (68)
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@vic83
Thank you sooooo much. Having worked 47 years with employer insurance, then 8 yrs on Medicare and an Advantage Plan that worked just fine, the choices are daunting. But I met a great broker and your message with a few others on this platform helped maneuver the maze. We will both go back to traditional Medicare with a plan G. Its more per month but we can afford it. Plus, for probably one time in our lives there's no underwriter to go thru to get accepted. Now I just have to decide on the supplemental plan.
So again, thank you very much for helping me know I'm making the right choice...the smart choice.
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@mk52dk51 ....When you start needing a good specialist - and specialists have subspecialties - you will be happy because you can self-refer with no problem. One doesn't get healthier getting older! I am so grateful I went with traditional Medicare; it was just by luck because someone told me how much they liked their plan, so I went with their Medigap plan without really looking much because the rep said I could travel with it and I was moving to Florida. Now I really need it so I am ahead premium wise. They pay out more for me than my premium!
Mayo Clinic sent out a letter recently to all patients that they will no longer take Advantage plans (and they only took special ones before).
The Medicare site has a good tool to find plans with. You tell it where you live and what type of plan you want and it pulls up all the plans you are eligible for and tells you how much each one will cost you. It is excellent for Part D (drug) plans. You give it your medications (and it saves them for you too) and it will pull up all the plans and tell you how much each one will cost you for the year (premium plus copays). That is what brokers use!