highdesert wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 6:29 pm If the practice has a website, check and see if they list the medical insurance plans that they accept. Yours is Medicare with a supplement, everyone seems to accept Medicare. I have a PPO and some medical practices only accept HMOs.

papajim2jordan wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 8:58 pm What's the difference between Supplement, and Advantage? I'll be Medicare in a couple of months, and get a boat load of junk in the mail. When I turned 60, I started on TriCare, which took the place of private insurance that I had since Shepp was a pup. Do I need more stuff? I have all my fingers, and am on no meds.

TrueTexan wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 10:21 pm

papajim2jordan wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 8:58 pm What's the difference between Supplement, and Advantage? I'll be Medicare in a couple of months, and get a boat load of junk in the mail. When I turned 60, I started on TriCare, which took the place of private insurance that I had since Shepp was a pup. Do I need more stuff? I have all my fingers, and am on no meds.

As a nurse that has worked with the different supplements and advantage plans. Stay with Tricare and Medicare. My dad was retired military had Tricare and Medicare. Paid all between the two of them don’t get involved with the Medicare disadvantage plans. Overall they promise the moon but maybe delivers an asteroid.

Tricare becomes a supplement to Medicare. Also you need to sign up for part A and B of Medicare A supplement pays what Medicare doesn’t pay. Advantage plans are a replacement for Medicare and are run by private companies that can limit who you see and what care you get.

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papajim2jordan wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2023 6:32 am

TrueTexan wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 10:21 pm

papajim2jordan wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 8:58 pm What's the difference between Supplement, and Advantage? I'll be Medicare in a couple of months, and get a boat load of junk in the mail. When I turned 60, I started on TriCare, which took the place of private insurance that I had since Shepp was a pup. Do I need more stuff? I have all my fingers, and am on no meds.

As a nurse that has worked with the different supplements and advantage plans. Stay with Tricare and Medicare. My dad was retired military had Tricare and Medicare. Paid all between the two of them don’t get involved with the Medicare disadvantage plans. Overall they promise the moon but maybe delivers an asteroid.

Tricare becomes a supplement to Medicare. Also you need to sign up for part A and B of Medicare A supplement pays what Medicare doesn’t pay. Advantage plans are a replacement for Medicare and are run by private companies that can limit who you see and what care you get.

Thanks. Wife said I didn't have to do anything also. But she also said I have to re-floor the cat house. Mixed messages. That second opinion thing is a good one.

highdesert wrote: Sun Nov 26, 2023 10:40 am For some of us our health insurance is tied to our pension and former employer and is subsidized, so we don't always have a lot of choices.

TrueTexan wrote: Sun Nov 26, 2023 10:49 am

highdesert wrote: Sun Nov 26, 2023 10:40 am For some of us our health insurance is tied to our pension and former employer and is subsidized, so we don't always have a lot of choices.

That is what my wife has due to her retirement from the College where she worked the State of Texas education system has BC/BS advantage plan for all retires. But it still functions just like the BC/BS she had when she was working. None of the BS that most advantage plans have.

Trump Says He’ll Push for Repeal of Obamacare (Again) If He’s Elected President
Former President Donald Trump suggested in a social media post over the weekend that, if he were to win the 2024 presidential election, he would continue pursuing avenues to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

The ACA, commonly referred to as Obamacare because it was passed during the first term of former President Barack Obama, is directly responsible for providing health coverage to tens of millions more Americans over the past decade. In addition to making health coverage more widely available, the law ensures that insurance companies cannot deny a person health care on the basis of pre-existing medical conditions, and requires most insurers to cover birth control costs.

The law is also popular. Polling on the ACA has shown a net-positive view of the law for several years now, with a survey conducted in May of this year showing that nearly 6 in 10 Americans (59 percent) view the ACA favorably, with only 40 percent viewing it unfavorably.

Trump’s recent comments on his fledgling Truth Social site, however, indicate that he’d seek to repeal the law once more if elected to the White House in the upcoming 2024 election.

highdesert wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2023 10:42 am Trump never succeeded from 2017 to 2021 when he was in office. On one occasion that was due to the late Sen John McCain. With more and more Republicans representing low income and working class Americans, I think it's a toss up if they would have the votes to repeal it.