Posted on 04/19/2018 1:25:49 PM PDT by zeestephen
Your new card will have a new Medicare Number that's unique to you, instead of your Social Security Number [and it's still a paper card].
(Excerpt) Read more at medicare.gov ...
From: 10 things to know about your new Medicare card...
Link:
https://www.medicare.gov/forms-help-and-resources/your-medicare-card.html
You’ll also note that it’s also in Spanish. Just saying.
The VA uses plastic with strip and picture of holder. Seems they are behind the times and more prone to fraud.
Thanks—hate to admit I am old enough to care about this... :-(
Was on SSDI and Medicare for about four and a half years from head injury.
I must say it was good coverage if not as good as the coverage I had through investment bank.
I was told I could keep medicare for SEVEN YEARS after I went back to work. But the job had a good plan.
Though to be honest, out of fear of not knowing how the return to work would go, I stayed on medicare for another year before switching.
Back to 85 percent of my old self.
But i was never all there anyway :)
I don’t like it. Paper? WTH!
Thanks for the post-—I just signed up for the E-Mail alert when mine is mailed——seems to be by state.
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Paper is not a problem—after you wrap it in aluminum foil :-)
Si señor.
It's not like one whips out their medicare card every day. And no one asks for that....they want to see your health insurance card.
I guess the other sixty or so languages spoken in the US don’t count.
Only English counts...as it should be.
So look for an uptick in postal box and Rural Route thefts.
Re: “And no one asks for that [Medicare Card]....they want to see your health insurance card.”
I’ll guess you have some kind of Medicare Advantage or HMO?
Medicare is the only insurance I have, so I have to carry it.
Gotcha....
The image I saw recently showed the new non-SS number, and one other change - the omission of gender. I guess I can now be whatever I want to be that day...
Then put it in a plastic bag, :) As much as I hate cards, I hate paper more. No satisfying me.
Good catch.
I did not realize that’s on my current card.
Politically correct madness.
Note that SS and Medicare are “joined at the hip”, and so the first way to reform either is to split the two apart.
For many years, congress has used a trick to keep SS ‘solvent’. As soon as the FICA tax comes in for both progs, they spend the money; but then say as long as they can meet the SS *monthly* payments, it is ‘solvent’.
It is a horrible lie. But at the same time it is true enough so it might be the key to ending SS for good, and *without* harming those receiving it.
Basically, continue to meet the *monthly* expenses. But no longer accept *new enrolees* into SS.
Eventually, SS will die off, by attrition. Nobody owed benefits will get screwed. The only downside, if you can call it that, is that the government will get much less FICA revenue to *misspend*. Less money to spend on things they never should have spent it for.
In the final analysis, from the get go, Social Security was a cheat. A way to double the income tax without it being called income tax.
Today, most people realize the odds of their getting benefits from it in its current form are slim to none. So they are unlikely to stand up for it.
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