{"id":17209,"date":"2020-11-23T11:28:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T16:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17209"},"modified":"2020-11-23T11:28:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T16:28:40","slug":"medicare-open-enrollment-is-complicated-heres-how-to-get-good-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17209","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Open Enrollment Is Complicated. Here\u2019s How to Get Good Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Bernard J. Wolfson for California Healthline published November 23, 2020)<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been watching TV lately, you may have seen actor Danny Glover or Joe Namath, the 77-year-old NFL legend, urging you to call an 800 number to get fabulous extra benefits from Medicare.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of other Medicare ads, too, many set against a red-white-and-blue background meant to suggest officialdom \u2014 though if you stand about a foot from the television screen, you might see the fine print saying they are not endorsed by any government agency.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/news\/medicare-open-enrollment-is-complicated-heres-how-to-get-good-advice\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/CA-healthline.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17210\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/CA-healthline-300x77.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/CA-healthline-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/CA-healthline.png 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>California Healthline is a service of the California Health Care Foundation produced by Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Bernard J. Wolfson for California Healthline published November 23, 2020) If you\u2019ve been watching TV lately, you may have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,46,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-medigap","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17211,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17209\/revisions\/17211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}