Tag: Medicare

How to Enroll in Part D: The Medicare Monster

How to Enroll in Part D: The Medicare Monster

| May 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

We’re running a primer on BoomerCafé on how to enroll in Medicare once you’re 65. This part is about prescription drug coverage, called “Medicare Part D.” There are tricky choices to be made.

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How to Enroll in Medicare, Part C

How to Enroll in Medicare, Part C

| April 23, 2013 | 0 Comments

Not long ago on BoomerCafé, you had the chance to share something that every baby boomer either already has dealt with, or is start to now, or will have to deal with: Medicare. Here is a primer for Medicare Part C.

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A Baby Boomer’s Guide on How to Enroll in Medicare

A Baby Boomer’s Guide on How to Enroll in Medicare

| April 15, 2013 | 0 Comments

We might be living active lifestyles … but while that softens the march of time, it doesn’t stop it: more baby boomers every day are turning the magical age of 65, the time for sorting out Medicare.

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As More Baby Boomers Turn to Medicare, Helpful Tips

As More Baby Boomers Turn to Medicare, Helpful Tips

| March 10, 2013 | 0 Comments

With increasing numbers of baby boomers getting Medicare coverage, here is some helpful guidance.

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Baby Boomers Fear Outliving Medicare

Baby Boomers Fear Outliving Medicare

| December 30, 2010 | 1 Comment

The first baby boomers will be old enough to qualify for Medicare Jan. 1, and many fear the program’s obituary will be written before their own.

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Protect Social Security and Medicare

| February 24, 2009 | 2 Comments

Stop the baby boomer bashing, writes Dean Baker for PoliticalAffairs.net. Remember all those headlines about how the baby boom cohorts just lost several trillion dollars in home equity due to the collapse of the housing bubble and how they lost trillions more in their retirement accounts as a result of the stock market crash? Most [...]

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Preparing for Older Baby Boomers

| December 7, 2008 | 0 Comments

America’s growing ethnic diversity gets a lot of attention, but the biggest demographic story in the country today is our booming senior population, reports the Holland, Michigan, Sentinel. The vanguard of the 76 million-strong baby boomer generation (dated from 1946 to 1964) started applying for Social Security this year, and as that huge cohort ages [...]

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The Cost of Social Security & Medicare

The Cost of Social Security & Medicare

| September 23, 2008 | 0 Comments

It’s going to cost us, no matter how you look at it, for Social Security and Medicare benefits. There are only two cures: higher taxes or lower benefits, according to Money Magazine. You’ve seen alarming stats thrown around and maybe wondered what to make of them. (For example, the two programs are said to have [...]

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