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    #16
    Healthnet covers the 20% medicare does not cover, never had a problem with them

    Originally posted by jreagan70 View Post
    Hi brave:

    It may not be that helpful to know what supplemental plan someone else has because you are restricted to buying only a plan that's available in California. Plans available in California may have (and probably do have) different rates and terms than plans available in other states, even among plans sold by the same company in other states. Part of that is due to the differences in costs of medical services in California, the laws about what needs to be included in insurance plans sold in California, and laws about how insurers conduct business in California that may be different from business laws in other states. So you can't make any plans based on what applies to someone else in another state.

    The Medicare website has a page with information about how to compare Medigap policies: https://www.medicare.gov/supplement-...e-medigap.html.

    Another Medicare website pate has information about when you can sign up for a supplemental and/or drug plan: https://www.medicare.gov/people-like...#collapse-3182.

    It's also important to remember that you won't be able to participate in Medicare and a supplemental policy until at least the end of 2019 -- more than 2 years from now. That's 2 new federal budgets away, and the trend under the current administration is to cut benefits and limit the way they're applied. Anything you learn now may have changed and be wrong by 2019, and you'll have to start your Medigap search all over again in 2 years based on current laws and availabilities.

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