The dreaded 65 is fast approaching and I have

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. STep ONe...

create an account here

account.mymedicare.gov

Not the main site for Medicare but this one...

It will allow you to look at all the different plans for a supplemental and the Part D RX plan that you must buy, I think you have to get one.

I pay $120 a month just for my medical supplemental with Anthem...you can pay less but this way I pay nothing other than the Plan B deductible which is around $190. I just checked it will be $203 next year, the deductible.

I pay $20 a month for Part D but this too varies quite a bit, so you need to look around on your personal Medicare site.


Advantage plans are restrictive. Advantage plans are unhealthy for Medicare in the long run, it is an end around to give more profits to the for profit system. Avoid it if you can, I say.