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Ok, for all of you on Medicare, did you get your "handbook" for 2023????? (Original Post) a kennedy Sep 2022 OP
Got it Doc Sportello Sep 2022 #1
LOL llmart Sep 2022 #19
I found out after a few years Tree Lady Sep 2022 #21
That's a good mindset Doc Sportello Oct 2022 #22
"deal with what comes" llmart Oct 2022 #23
Waiting for the movie... MiHale Sep 2022 #2
About the size of a phone book, right? Marthe48 Sep 2022 #3
Lol, good one. The version on line is at least searchable in case Hortensis Sep 2022 #4
I have nine years of unread Medicare "handbooks" in a basket somewhere agingdem Sep 2022 #5
Thankfully I am covered fully by the VA. Dysfunctional Sep 2022 #6
I get mine online, my husband gets the hard copy yellowdogintexas Sep 2022 #7
They sent me one AFTER I signed up for Medicare. Would have been nice to have it in advance. Midnight Writer Sep 2022 #8
Damn. Good luck. a kennedy Sep 2022 #9
I don't read that stuff,,,, they're going to tell me what to anyway,,,, KarenS Sep 2022 #10
I got it last week. Raftergirl Sep 2022 #11
Ha ha. My husband turns 65 next year so we got it Beaverhausen Sep 2022 #12
You can be penalized for not signing up at 65. Emile Sep 2022 #16
Thanks. He will sign up but I hear we can still go through my employer Beaverhausen Sep 2022 #17
I got on Medicare plus a supplement chowmama Sep 2022 #20
I turn 65 in March and haven't gotten mine Dave says Sep 2022 #13
We got ours either yesterday of the day before. Chainfire Sep 2022 #14
😅 gotcha, and I will. a kennedy Sep 2022 #18
We got ours the other day. My wife always reads it. Emile Sep 2022 #15
If nothing was sent out GenThePerservering Oct 2022 #24

Doc Sportello

(7,953 posts)
1. Got it
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 01:08 PM
Sep 2022

Will probably sit there for a few days while I'm thinking about reading it. Then I'll put it away in case I need it. Which I never do.

llmart

(16,301 posts)
19. LOL
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 08:21 PM
Sep 2022

When I first went on Medicare I would go through the book and then put it away "in case I need it". After about four years of never needing it and knowing that even if I did I'd probably go online to find out whatever I wanted, so now I just recycle it immediately. I don't want to spend any more of the years I do have left reading that. My mantra now is "whatever happens to me is going to happen and I'll deal with it when it does".

Doc Sportello

(7,953 posts)
22. That's a good mindset
Sat Oct 1, 2022, 10:15 AM
Oct 2022

Once we learn the ins and outs of the retirement/Medicare part of life, at some point you just have to say deal with what comes as you say.

llmart

(16,301 posts)
23. "deal with what comes"
Sat Oct 1, 2022, 05:03 PM
Oct 2022

That's pretty much my mantra now that I'm over 70 and retired. If we're all honest with ourselves, we have very little control over most things in life and after a certain age, you shouldn't waste the precious time you have left planning or fretting about stuff that might never happen.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. Lol, good one. The version on line is at least searchable in case
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 01:12 PM
Sep 2022

we ever need to know what it says about "tax penalty" (god forfend), or what's different for people in Puerto Rico.

agingdem

(8,514 posts)
5. I have nine years of unread Medicare "handbooks" in a basket somewhere
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 01:16 PM
Sep 2022

I also have an overload of Medicare emails assuring me the last 90 days of my life will be fully covered…good to know but I feel fine…

 

Dysfunctional

(452 posts)
6. Thankfully I am covered fully by the VA.
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 01:25 PM
Sep 2022

I haven't paid anything for the last 27 years. I have 2 VA doctors and 10 non-VA specialists including a podiatrist who cuts my toenails.

yellowdogintexas

(22,648 posts)
7. I get mine online, my husband gets the hard copy
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 01:26 PM
Sep 2022

I don't read it cover to cover, just the part with changes. I worked for a Part B carrier in the 1970s and find not a lot has changed since then.

LBJ had great plans to expand Medicare into what would eventually become a National Health Plan. That's so unfortunate; Medicare has the lowest cost per claim, fastest turnaround time, lowest error ratio. It would have been a game changer, just like the original plan and Social Security.

Midnight Writer

(22,885 posts)
8. They sent me one AFTER I signed up for Medicare. Would have been nice to have it in advance.
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 01:44 PM
Sep 2022

Now I have a "conflict" with my legacy insurance and I can't get either one to pay the damn doctor bills.

Beaverhausen

(24,563 posts)
12. Ha ha. My husband turns 65 next year so we got it
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 02:13 PM
Sep 2022

That thing scared me.




I can still cover him on my insurance from my employer but we will have lots of questions once he actually turns 65.

Beaverhausen

(24,563 posts)
17. Thanks. He will sign up but I hear we can still go through my employer
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 05:39 PM
Sep 2022

or something like that. I will ask our HR people about it once the sign up period starts

chowmama

(492 posts)
20. I got on Medicare plus a supplement
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 10:51 PM
Sep 2022

(not Advantage plan) as soon as I could. My work keeps going from one big plan to another, all of them 'for profit', which the companies apparently take very seriously. Every year the copay is more and the coverage less. I figured how much I was already paying as my share and looked to see what I could get for the same amount.

I'm getting better coverage just for what used to be my share, not even counting what my employer used to put in. I still have to sit through the 'introduction to the new plan' meetings, but I just knit and smile.

 

Chainfire

(17,757 posts)
14. We got ours either yesterday of the day before.
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 05:14 PM
Sep 2022

My wife will sit in a quite place, read it through, make notes and then tell me what was in it. I will pass any information along, but you will have to pay for it! None of that socialism crap!

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