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Your guide to Medicare fall enrollment - by Mark Miller

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It's important to do a check-up on your Part D or Advantage coverage each year during fall enrollment - and that's especially true this year.

It’s unfortunate that the massive privatization of Medicare requires us to go through this every year. The annual Medicare enrollment period rolls around every fall, and that means it’s time to re-evaluate your Part D standalone prescription drug or Medicare Advantage plan. Roughly 70% don’t bother to do it - and the insurance companies that sponsor these plans hope you won’t. You might have signed up initially for a drug plan that offered a low premium and reasonable out-of-pocket costs, or an Advantage plan that included your health care providers in its network. But plans change, so…

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