In a message dated 12/22/2009 9:14:46 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, glen...@earthlink.net writes:
I just got a letter from Blue Cross. They are ending their Personal Choice Plan and converting to junk insurance by the end of Feb. Being an old coot, I'm on Medicare (which increased the amount they withhold from my social security payment, but not by too much). I was on Blue Cross' Keystone 65 -- a so-called "Medicare Advantage Plan." Some years they charged me $30 per month for this, some it was $15 per month, some it was free ... go figure! Anyway, this year they discontinued it and instead offered something much more expensive (on top of what's already deducted from Social Security). I looked around and decided to switch to an Aetna Medicare Advantage. Also free as long as I was willing to fork over a little more in co-payments. Anyway, Aetna looked pretty good all around, so I'd suggest you look at their website and see if they have something that's reasonable for self-employed young whippersnappers, too. Alan Krigman KRF Management, ICON/Information Concepts Inc 211 S 45th St, Philadelphia PA 19104-2918 215-349-6500, fax 215-349-6502 krf...@aol.com or _al.krig...@krf.icodat.com_ (mailto:al.krig...@krf.icodat.com) PS: I am not employed by, nor receive any commissions from, Aetna. And I won't be starting with them until 1/1/10 so, for all I know, they may be very tight with their "referrals" when something come up that's beyond my primary care physician (who, incidentally, is the same person I had with Keystone 65).
