{"id":23679,"date":"2024-11-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23679"},"modified":"2024-11-25T15:21:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T20:21:28","slug":"this-retirement-expert-saved-her-mom-1200-on-medicare-drugs-says-older-people-are-getting-screwed-here-are-3-of-her-tips-to-cut-your-health-care-costs-asap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23679","title":{"rendered":"This retirement expert saved her mom $1,200 on Medicare drugs, says older people are \u2018getting screwed\u2019 \u2014 here are 3 of her tips to cut your health care costs ASAP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Christy Bieber for Moneywise on November 23, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hindsight is 20-20, but for one 85-year-old retiree, the discovery that she\u2019d been overpaying for her prescription meds \u2014 to the tune of $1,200 per year \u2014 could have come sooner and with a switch to a different Medicare Part D plan. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/finance\/retirement-expert-saved-her-mom-115700330.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALKoR_bkWnEa9HBc5rnbnS79Pr11nwxSgFNv30liJ8RMBRKM1xfzL-9OYvFWGFDqbLCAffhTHoIpUqp1wLkOqV3x_tLbA2-1Gw4aeXsqOAQBy2XmEua5vyQnon9mlewQjhJb2xZfXrmHTjWVHFeP8DJCco7gZ1lMlCqSgeTXdqCk\">Here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-7795\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Christy Bieber for Moneywise on November 23, 2024 Hindsight is 20-20, but for one 85-year-old retiree, the discovery that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,15],"tags":[1338,65],"class_list":["post-23679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-amacfoundation","tag-medicare-part-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23679","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23680,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23679\/revisions\/23680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}