Curious - How Old Is Everybody?
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Rum Runner
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Almost ready for Medicare
Point Break
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27 is the prize.
My sister, a Republican (the black sheep of the family) is on Medicare. She loves it for herself. But god forget about the unwashed masses who need health care. She's got many zeros behind the numbers in her accounts from her husbands work in the medical fleecing of USA.
badlatitude
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75 retired at 50, and I still run only half as far. I have never spent a night in a hospital, and I hope that is something I can continue to brag about.
What, 1970 in the UK?
billy backstay
Backstay, never bought a suit, never went to Vegas
Pretty sure it's well known that Meli is or was a Brit who emigrated to Oz, probably about that era.
hard aground
Super Anarchist
53, for one more week
I don't remember the horse drawn milk, i think even in the middle of Dartmoor we had the electric floats. The rest of it I recognise from the late 70s early 80s...
SloopJonB
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I still get carded to prove geezer status.
Doesn't bother me a bit. I enjoy the fact that I only ever got carded once tp prove I was old enough to drink.
Steam Flyer
Sophisticated Yet Humble
Making fun of us old farts & geezers?
Anybody remember "something nice from Teaky's desk" ?
i'm 18 ;-)
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I don’t remember ever getting carded. I did spend my “pre-21” and just “post-21” years in the military. Nobody got carded when deployed and even stateside you could drink on base in the EM club. By the time I got out at age 22 (already married with a kid) I must have looked old enough……..🤷♂️😎
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Medicare has been okay. I also chose A&B with a group G gap and D for retired FF’s.
Two of my long term Doc’s including my Ortho guy stopped taking Medicare. That was a PIA.
The cost is more than the group Blue Cross 90/10 PPO I had through work before I was forced by law to enroll in Medicare at 65 (thanks IRMA). Not a lot more……about $150 a month more. I do get a monthly offset from a union annuity I paid into for years which now in retirement pays out monthly and that gets me to about level with my prior to age 65 costs.
What is good about the Medicare is no network and rapid preauthorization. In fact most care providers don’t even wait for preauthorization knowing Medicare pays.
What I do miss is my great dental and vision plans from before I retired. The plans available to retirees are hardly worth the premiums.
Grande Mastere Dreade
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old enough to know better, old enough not to care..
mid 60's
mid 60's
Olsonist
Disgusting Liberal Elitist
Yes, there are some doctors who don't accept Medicare Assignment AND also don't accept Medicare Extra Charges, roughly 10% more than Assignment; Plan G covers this. They're rare though but you have one.
(Still, you might loop back and ask if they accept Extra Charges. I've found that docs who like you are extremely flexible. I knew a good pit who insisted on doing her skipper's dental work pro bono. Indeed the hard part is finding a good doc and then getting accepted as a patient in their clinic.)
The basic idea with Plan G is to pay a LITTLE more up front for a LOT more flexibility and ZERO surprises on the backend. I'm then not going to get nickel and dimed with copays and coinsurance or sweat preauthorizations.
I'm a Plan G evangelist. You can pry my Medicare and Plan G cards out of my cold dead hands.
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Why haven't you enrolled in the VA? If you still live in SB it is very close. It has dental, vision, and hearing, and is 1000% better than it was. All you need is a copy of your DD214 to enroll.
