Medicare
and
YouPays

October 9, 2020 -- I am 66 and I've had Medicare for a year. My parents (may they rest in peace) had it, too (as do most 65+ Americans) and were pleased although, in his last two days of life, my father was not afforded a private room in the hospital (Mt. Sinai in New York City which we dubbed Mt. Cyanide) and we -- an endless stream of family paying last respects and we three his distraught offspring -- had to tiptoe and whisper so as not to disturb the saintly heart patient in the other bed. Medicare is no Rolls Royce.

And it's complicated! OK, I get the distinction between Parts A, B, C, and D. But that's just the beginning.

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