Is that call really from Medicare?
Medicare & Healthcare

Is that call really from Medicare?

Open Enrollment runs October 15 to December 7, and the calls come with it. Medicare says it will never call to sell you anything, and federal rules bar cold calls from plans and agents. Who is really allowed to call, what the common scams sound like, and the two sentences I say before I hang up.

Still working at 65 for a small company?
Medicare & Healthcare

Still working at 65 for a small company?

At a company with fewer than 20 employees, Medicare pays first and the work plan pays second. That flips the Part B decision: skipping it risks bills the plan might not pay, not a penalty. How Medicare counts to 20, the association-plan trap, the paperwork, and the arithmetic.

Seven things no AI can know about your Medicare
Medicare & Healthcare

Seven things no AI can know about your Medicare

An engineer's list. Some Medicare facts are not public yet, some are public but only county by county or state by state, and some exist only in your own file. A good AI assistant cannot know any of them, and the difference between a good one and a dangerous one is whether it says so. Here are the se

Did you give up on AI too soon?
Medicare & Healthcare

Did you give up on AI too soon?

It makes up sources. It gets things wrong. It argues. I hear all three from people who tried an AI assistant once or twice and put it down. Each complaint was true of the tool they were holding. Here is what has changed since, with dates, what has not, and a one-minute test for each that you can run