Medicare costs me about $150 a Month (which comes out of my SS Check), plus $135 for my Medicare Supplement coverage which has a $205 Medicare Deductible, plus $25 for my Plan D Drug coverage which has a $420 Deductible and Co Pays and don’t forget the Doctor Visit Co Pays.
Same estimated costs for my Wife.
That “free” Medicare costs us around $800 a Month when it’s all said and done.
Medicare runs a HUGE deficit and the fund will be essentially broke in 2026. Which means that beneficiaries are getting more out (aka free stuff) than is going in. Adding dental just makes it worse.
And the baby boomer wave like myself is just getting to their mid/late 70s where medical costs typically ramp up before death.