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Get Your Senior Health Care Insurance at Sixty Five
Michalis 'BIG Mike' Kotzakolios


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One alternative for senior health care insurance is Medicare. The hospital insurance option is available to those who reach the age of sixty five as long as they apply immediately upon turning that age. This includes anyone who is still working even if their current employer covers health benefits. This initial benefit is nearly always free. It covers the costs of hospital stays as well as the costs of short term stays at nursing homes. The other part is medical insurance. This part covers doctor’s appointments and all outpatient services including x-rays and physiotherapy. This part of the medical coverage does have a cost of slightly under one hundred dollars monthly.

It is advised that when a person turns sixty five, and so is considered a senior, they should apply for both parts one and two of the senior health care insurance plan. This should be done even if their employer has a health insurance plan they are enrolled in as once they have become a senior obligations and benefits of this plan may change. It may only pick up the costs that are over the seniors plan and so not having it could leave the person with financial obligations for their own health care that may be beyond them to pay. It is also felt that if the senior does not apply at the time they get the initial insurance from Medicare they may be charged more at a later date for the second half of the medical coverage.

Sometimes there are provisions to help those over sixty five get the senior health care insurance they need without having to pay for all of it. These considerations are if the senior meets certain financial criteria. Their monthly income must be less than one thousand one hundred and twenty three dollars. If they are part of a couple then the couple can only bring in one thousand five hundred and five dollars monthly to be eligible. As well their assets must be under six thousand dollars, or four thousand for a single person, to be eligible for a program to help defray costs. Assets do not include their home or vehicle.



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