Medicare at 50 Act reintroduced

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$tevie wrote:
I am on Medicare. You have to pay for everything except basic Medicare, and on top of that you have to pay for supplemental insurance because Medicare doesn't cover half of what you would want/need covered. So joy, rapture, now people as young as 50 can learn that Medicare ain't nearly the wunnerful thing that people who aren't on it imagine that it is.
PS: guess who sells the supplemental insurance? Private insurance companies, that's who. Guess they ain't going anywhere any time soon.

I've been wondering about that now that I know more people on Medicare. It seems like it's turned in to an incredible racket. Trying to get someone's meds covered (finding a plan that covers all of them, or as many as possible. And then they change what they cover). 20 calls a day trying to get you to switch to a different supplemental plan, etc. Very aggressive and deceptive tactics.

Admittedly, I don't understand it, and I probably won't find out really how much I don't know until I get there. Not really looking forward to it.