Bernice:
I'm Bernice and this is my husband, Pat. I didn't know anything about Medicare. We've seen other people that had Medicare and I also did some reading on Medicare and I knew it wasn't enough.
Pat:
My wife met an agent for medical insurance and he did such a good job for us. Everything worked out and whatever he told us to do seemed to work so well. He helps us every year. We sit down with him every year and he gives us some guidance on what the best plan is for us. Since I've retired, it's been a couple years now, that's the direction we've gone was with the MA plan because it fit our needs.
Bernice:
I had a heart attack in 2018 and so the Medicare Advantage plan covered most of the bill. It worked out well, and I got really good care. Four times a year, each of us get fifty dollars worth of OTCs.
Pat:
It's general medical supplies that you'd buy anyway, Tylenol, aspirin, stuff that you on a routine basis are going to be buying. So we make sure we take advantage of that. It's a big perk.
Bernice:
We received a gift card when the doctor came out to our home. We receive a gift card when we have our annual physical. Another perk that we found was that they encourage exercising and so if you have some type of monitor, like a Fitbit...
Pat:
You sync the device with their system and they can monitor you and whenever we hit or go of 7,500 steps in a day, we get five bucks.
Bernice:
It's really simplified our medical.
Pat:
I think simply put, Medicare Advantage works.
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