# Another Medicare Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 15, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-medicare-thread/944339 "2021-06-15T18:00:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-medicare-thread/944339/9 "2021-06-20T23:50:00Z")
What, 20,000 words weren’t enough for ya? You want me to write more??? 😛 Go to the thread below, posts 2, 10, 30, 32, 39, and 78 are particularly helpful. Not going to retype it out, but effectively: 1. Plans vary by county. Go to [Medicare.gov](http://Medicare.gov), enter your zip code, select for the county, and then review plans. 2. As a general rule, a Medicare Supplement (MS) plan + a Part D prescription plan is better financially than a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan (which usually has a Part D attached to it). 3. You will pay that Part B premium for the rest of your life. Just accept it. 4. If you have creditable employer coverage, and it’s subsidized, keep it as long as you can. > [@America's Elder Crisis, Medicare Edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-elder-crisis-medicare-edition/937146): > > They call, or we call them, an inexhaustible stream of elderly, disabled, and/or poor Americans, all with their stories to tell. Different in the details of course, but in the aggregate a theme develops, a daily oral history of a shattered medical insurance system, not broken because of governmental incompetence but of an insane ideological commitment to “choice” and “competition” and “the market” even in areas where these ideas do not belong. And it has been my experience in the private Medica… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-medicare-thread/944339)._