Medicare For Dummies

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Barry Patricia. Medicare For Dummies

Introduction

Part 1. Getting Started with Medicare

Chapter 1. The Nuts and Bolts of Medicare: What It Is and How It Works

Chapter 2. Spelling Out What Medicare Covers (A Lot, but Not Everything)

Chapter 3. Understanding What You Pay Toward Your Costs in Medicare

Chapter 4. Reducing Your Out-of-Pocket Expenses in Medicare

Part 2. The Hows and Whens of Medicare

Chapter 5. Qualifying for Medicare

Chapter 6. Enrolling in Medicare at the Right Time for You

Chapter 7. Discovering How to Sign Up for Medicare

Chapter 8. Understanding How Medicare Fits In with Other Health Insurance

Part 3. Making Smart Choices among Medicare’s Many Options

Chapter 9. Making Sense of Medicare’s Many Options

Chapter 10. Choosing Wisely If You Go with Traditional Medicare

Chapter 11. Making Smart Choices If You Opt for Medicare Advantage

Chapter 12. Getting Help in Making Medicare Choices

Part 4. Navigating Medicare from the Inside

Chapter 13. Starting Out as a New Medicare Beneficiary

Chapter 14. Getting the Inside Scoop on Using Certain Medicare Benefits

Chapter 15. Changing Your Medicare and Medigap Coverage

Chapter 16. Knowing Your Rights

Part 5. The Part of Tens

Chapter 17. Ten Proposed Changes to Medicare You Should Know About

Chapter 18. Ten Ways to Stay Healthier Beyond Age 65

Part 6. Appendixes

Appendix A. Sources of Help and Information

Appendix B. Glossary

About the Author

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For most people, turning 65 or otherwise becoming eligible for Medicare feels like stepping into alien territory without a map. The signposts you think should be there often aren’t immediately visible. When you ask for directions, you can’t always be sure you’re being pointed down the right path.

Medicare For Dummies, 2nd Edition, is the map you need. It gives accurate, practical information about Medicare in plain language. It shows you how to skirt pitfalls and avoid wrong turns that can cost you dearly. My goal is to help you make informed, confident decisions that take you where you want to be. How can I promise that? Because this book is, in essence, the result of thousands of questions I’ve received over the years from people just like you.

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Another point: This book assumes no political standpoints. Medicare has always been a controversial hot potato, gingerly tossed between those who think of it as a social safety net that should be extended to everyone and those who see it as an expensive luxury that is a growing drain on the economy. If you hold strong opinions, fine; that’s your privilege. But in these pages, the only “us versus them” undertone is a bias toward consumers (us) rather than government bureaucracies and insurance companies (them). The aim of this book is to help you understand and deal with the system as it is now. If you want it changed, please tell your members of Congress, not me!

Icons are those cute drawings you see in the page margins now and again. Here’s what they mean:

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