22 min

The Costly, Confusing Medicare Choices Facing 62 Million Americans Tradeoffs

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It’s Medicare open enrollment — the one chance each year that all 62 million beneficiaries have to shop for better coverage. But choosing a new plan is much harder and riskier than it seems.
Guests:
Lilyan Grossman, Medicare beneficiary
Tricia Neuman, ScD, Senior Vice President and Executive Director of the Program on Medicare Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation
Amal Trivedi, MD, Professor of Medicine and Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Brown University
Dig deeper into the research and tradeoffs of shopping around for Medicare plans: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/10/28/medicare-open-enrollment 
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It’s Medicare open enrollment — the one chance each year that all 62 million beneficiaries have to shop for better coverage. But choosing a new plan is much harder and riskier than it seems.
Guests:
Lilyan Grossman, Medicare beneficiary
Tricia Neuman, ScD, Senior Vice President and Executive Director of the Program on Medicare Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation
Amal Trivedi, MD, Professor of Medicine and Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Brown University
Dig deeper into the research and tradeoffs of shopping around for Medicare plans: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/10/28/medicare-open-enrollment 
Sign up for our weekly newsletter to see what research health policy experts are reading right now, plus recommendations from our staff: bit.ly/tradeoffsnewsletter
Support this type of journalism today, with a gift: https://tradeoffs.org/donate
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

22 min

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