Ok, for all of you on Medicare, did you get your "handbook" for 2023?????

[a kennedy]

ya gonna read it?? If ya do let me know what’s in it ok??

[Doc Sportello]

1. Got it

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]

19. LOL

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".

[Tree Lady]

21. I found out after a few years

You can opt for online link only.

[Doc Sportello]

22. That's a good mindset

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]

23. "deal with what comes"

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.

[MiHale]

2. Waiting for the movie...

[Marthe48]

3. About the size of a phone book, right?

I guess if we get a copy, it means we're on their active list

[Hortensis]

4. Lol, good one. The version on line is at least searchable in case

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

[agingdem]

5. I have nine years of unread Medicare "handbooks" in a basket somewhere

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]

6. Thankfully I am covered fully by the VA.

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]

7. I get mine online, my husband gets the hard copy

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]

8. They sent me one AFTER I signed up for Medicare. Would have been nice to have it in advance.

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

[a kennedy]

9. Damn. Good luck.

[KarenS]

10. I don't read that stuff,,,, they're going to tell me what to anyway,,,,

What a waste of paper.

[Raftergirl]

11. I got it last week.

I will keep it to refer to if a question or issue arises.

[Beaverhausen]

12. Ha ha. My husband turns 65 next year so we got it

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.

[Emile]

16. You can be penalized for not signing up at 65.

https://www2.unitedamerican.com/articles/october-2021/will-i-be-penalized-for-not-signing-up-for-medicare-at-65#:~:text=Generally%20speaking%2C%20if%20you%20do,you%27re%20eligible%20for%20coverage.&text=You%27ll%20have%20to%20pay,as%20you%20have%20Part%20B.

[Beaverhausen]

17. Thanks. He will sign up but I hear we can still go through my employer

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

[chowmama]

20. I got on Medicare plus a supplement

(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.

[Dave says]

13. I turn 65 in March and haven't gotten mine

[Chainfire]

14. We got ours either yesterday of the day before.

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!

[a kennedy]

18. 😅 gotcha, and I will.

[Emile]

15. We got ours the other day. My wife always reads it.

[GenThePerservering]

24. If nothing was sent out

there would be complaints of lack of information and access.