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From: "Carol" <cshenk@virginia-beach.com>
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Subject: Re: WHY? (Re: One-pot dish)
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:52:33 -0000 (UTC)
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Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> On 2024-11-21, Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> > Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >> On 2024-11-21, fos@sdf.org <fos@sdf.org> wrote:
> >>> On 2024-11-21, Carol <cshenk@virginia-beach.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> >>>> Here's my own OT.  Medicare season for all the supplement scam
> packages >>>> here is in full swing.  The spammers are even worse
> this year.
> > > > 
> >>> my wife turned 65 this year. does the stream of medicare related
> >>> postal mail ever slow down or even stop? at our house it goes
> >>> directly from the mailbox to the recycle bin. why do people hate
> >>> trees so much?
> >> 
> >> It slows down.  My husband turns 65 this year and he's being
> inundated.  >> I turned 65 almost three years ago and I rarely
> receive anything.  >> 
> > 
> > You don't get tons of "part C" "advantage plan" bullshit constantly?
> 
> Maybe.  My husband often picked up the mail and simply discards
> anything he knows is B.S
> 
> > You know ... the one that's 100% free and covers damn near
> > everything (but probably only pays $1 for each claim). They even
> > give you money to buy groceries and pay for all kinds of shit, like
> > aspirin.
> 
> I have an Advantage plan.  They've paid for everything I've needed.
> It's not free.  It's $20.50/month on top of basic Medicare.

The problem here is they try to tie you to a provider then if the
provider doesn't have that specialty, you are SOL with no coverage.

Add to it as military retirees, they give nothing we don't already have
but we can LOSE our Tricare for life (free) over falling for one of
them.  What disgusts me is they know that, but are scamming us for
profit.