What Medicare Plan is Best for You – a Medicare Supplement Plans or a Medicare Advantage Plans? It’s more involved than just choosing between a Medicare Supplement Plan or a Medicare Advantage Plan. Both the Supplement and Advantage plan-types have different policies by different insurance carriers. The Medical Advantage Plan and Medicare Supplement Plan are composed of separate collections of insurance policies by various companies. To select the right Medicare Advantage Plan or Medicare
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You are eligible for Medicare Insurance but you don’t feel that you need to sign up for the prescription drug coverage. You don’t take any prescriptions, so it’s not a big deal, right? You will be surprised to find out that the medicare system stacks the deck against you in this instance. When you become eligible for medicare, you are supposed to also sign up for prescription drug coverage unless you have other creditable drug coverage. If you are on tri-care or if you are
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When does the Annual Election Period for Medicare end? The Annual Election Period, or AEP (also known as Open Enrollment) for 2019 ends on December 7th.  That is the final day for submitting applications for coverage to start on January 1, 2019. If you miss this deadline, and you are already on Medicare, you will not be dropped from your current coverage.  You will automatically be renewed in your present plan in most cases.  The exception would be for discontinued plans, in which case your
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