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I spent most of yesterday trying to understand and navigate the complexities of Medigap coverage.
You see, this week Mr. AOW's Medicare card arrived in the mail.
Even though Mr. AOW will not reach the age of sixty-five for nearly three more years, he is automatically enrolled in Medicare thirty months after the qualifying event that disabled him in 2009 and has confined him to a hospital bed with a bedside commode in our living room.
Frankly, we've been looking forward to Medicare: Mr. AOW's private health-insurance premiums have risen from $500 a month to $700 a month over a two year period. The next premium hike for Mr. AOW is scheduled for June 2012, at which point the premium will be $908 a month. Mind you, the private health-insurance policy that Mr. AOW has is of the catastrophic type without prescription coverage and with a high deductible — two features which keep the premium far below that of gold-plated health insurance.
So, what's the point of this post? Shouldn't I be dancing for joy that, in a few months, Mr. AOW's health-insurance premium will drop from hundreds of dollars a month to $117.00 a month? Not exactly....
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The Medicare Maze
I spent most of yesterday trying to understand and navigate the complexities of Medigap coverage.You see, this week Mr. AOW's Medicare card arrived in the mail.
Even though Mr. AOW will not reach the age of sixty-five for nearly three more years, he is automatically enrolled in Medicare thirty months after the qualifying event that disabled him in 2009 and has confined him to a hospital bed with a bedside commode in our living room.
Frankly, we've been looking forward to Medicare: Mr. AOW's private health-insurance premiums have risen from $500 a month to $700 a month over a two year period. The next premium hike for Mr. AOW is scheduled for June 2012, at which point the premium will be $908 a month. Mind you, the private health-insurance policy that Mr. AOW has is of the catastrophic type without prescription coverage and with a high deductible — two features which keep the premium far below that of gold-plated health insurance.
So, what's the point of this post? Shouldn't I be dancing for joy that, in a few months, Mr. AOW's health-insurance premium will drop from hundreds of dollars a month to $117.00 a month? Not exactly....
Read the rest at Always On Watch.
- Premiums Rising Faster Than Eight Years Before Obamacare Combined
Health insurance premiums have risen more after Obamacare than the average premium increases over the eight years before it became law, according to the private health exchange eHealthInsurance.The individual market for health insurance has seen premiums...
- The Objective Reality Of Obamacare In The Numbers Here In Maine
I had to check this three times before I believed it. A word separate .. I had believed that while this act was extremely inadvisable the republicans were inflexibly exaggerating it's 'horror', and that it was a political football, especially...
- The Next Set Of Obama Attack Commercials
MEDICARE, and vouchers.Be ready Mitt ..Pauly.Even in a state like Ohio with about 35-40 health insurance companies health care costs are high, and you are asking people as old as 54 to eschew any nervous sensation they have in the pit of their stomachs...
- Every Time You Hear Someone Claim Ryan’s Plan Will ‘gut’ Or ‘destroy’ Medicare ‘as We Know It’ Remember, You Are Looking At A Blatant, Unabashed Liar
First, Ryan introduced SEVERAL different bills, one of which was cosponsored by dem Cong. Whyte. That is the latest bill.Why are their several bills? Because Mr Ryan and Mr Whyte reached across the aisle to each other to COMMIT AN ACT WHICH WILL DO SOMETHING.What...
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Let us understand some of what ObamaCare requires by 2014, unless, of course, one chooses to pay the tax instead of ponying up for health insurance. I did research on the topic of availing this household of the "cheap ObamaCare policies" in 2010,...