{"id":5294,"date":"2016-12-14T08:45:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T13:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5294"},"modified":"2016-12-14T08:45:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T13:45:15","slug":"cobra-retiree-plans-va-benefits-dont-alleviate-need-to-sign-up-for-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5294","title":{"rendered":"COBRA, Retiree Plans, VA Benefits Don\u2019t Alleviate Need To Sign Up For Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Susan Jaffe for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>When Cindy Hunter received her Medicare card in the mail last spring, she said she \u201cdidn\u2019t know a lot about Medicare.\u201d She and her husband, retired teachers who live in a Philadelphia suburb, decided she didn\u2019t need it because she shared his retiree health insurance, which covered her treatment for ovarian cancer.<a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/cobra-retiree-plans-va-benefits-dont-alleviate-need-to-sign-up-for-medicare\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=39235647&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-82msj4u6qnyyII8iv2qB8CIAfI2-rOIVznMWGur3iswUoRQKSkeyzf1T6GKLniasoZ6UxpZpoSnTlm6PHGUFTAmwAu4Q&amp;_hsmi=39235647\" target=\"_blank\"> Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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