Greetings and may this blog find you in amazing health 💪 with your Medicare insurance coverage 🏥 working properly.
Q sends her greetings from Madagascar where she’s still exploring and making up for thirty plus years of working way too hard. Me? I am happily back home getting ready for the busy season, yikes!
We’re five weeks away from the Annual Election Period and I’m starting to feel a little bit like how this chameleon looks.
Changes are definitely coming. Even this lemur is curious.
If you have a Medicare Supplement (plan G, plan N, etc.), the changes will not be significant. If you’ve been in your plan for more than two years, and you are in decent health, it’s probably a good idea for us to shop the rates.
Medigap/Medicare Supplemental plans can be shopped any month of the year, so feel free to book a time in September if you like.
If you have a Part D drug plan or a Medicare Advantage Plan, here’s what to do to prevent sticker shock in January.
When “the Annual Notice of Changes” arrives, please open it and look at the costs, the benefits, and your drugs.
Reading through the changes will take less time than it took me to refinish these barrels (Plato refused to help).
Some Part D drug plans and some specific Medicare Advantage plans may be going away entirely😱 .
Some plans may have significant price increases 😡.
Some drugs may no longer be covered 😨.
Some drugs may be less expensive😊.
Some people won’t need to make any changes at all.
Please don’t stick out your tongue and forget about it.
If we’ve been working together, then I have a copy of your medications and your doctors.
You’ll get a letter from me at the end of the month telling you it’s time for us to chat, including this fancy schmancy jar opener/mouse pad.
After you book an appointment, please email Gray, Gray@TheBig65.com, and tell him you would like to update your medications before we speak.
Gray will send you a link with your current medications. You can update them yourself or chat with him on the phone and he will help you. October 15th till December 7th is when we can make changes.
Jeanne and Vincent should be back from their adventures in Scotland by then and I’ll have plenty of slots open if we need to speak.
Q tells me she should be home by then… assuming she learns how to cook onions, cassava, and salt.
Congrats Jim in Illinois, Betsy in Denver, Louie in Pennsylvania for guessing the mountains in this picture. The answer is Maroon Bells.
Thanks again to client Mike in Atlanta for the painting. He is getting a Starbucks card as well!
This week’s “don’t be a hero” award goes to neighbor John. John is one of the amazing guys who never stops hustling. Though retired, he still teaches part time, travels, has a yard way nicer than mine, and he loves to play pickleball.
That’s what got him in trouble…trying a little too hard to make the point… and then continuing to play after he was injured. The good news, he is definitely on the mend.
Everyone, repeat after John, “don’t be a hero ⚕️😊🎾👨⚕️!”
We got great news from our Air Force son in Britain. Knock on wood, come December, he’ll be deployed in Italy. We’re very proud of this young rascal and we can’t wait to visit. You know we love to travel.
In the meantime, Plato and I have decided to learn a new hobby, paddleboarding. Don’t worry, we’ll do our best not to be heroes.
Plato is a rule follower and he was exhausted after sanding the barrels.
Keep squeezing the juice out of life and look for ways to help others!
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Karl Bruns-Kyler
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Karl Bruns-Kyler is a Medicare insurance broker and independent Medicare agent licensed to help Medicare recipients in thirty states around the country, including:
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