I KNOW WHAT hospice is: It’s one of the unintentionally best-kept secrets in this business, but we’ll get to that. And because I’ve been ricocheting… Continue reading
I’M STILL IN shock. I’ve heard from several different people in several different places who are actually planning ahead. Specifically, they plan to “age in… Continue reading
IF YOU’RE HAVING to go to the hospital for something, what’s the first thing on your mind? Right. Getting through/surviving/recovering from whatever it is that’s… Continue reading
WHEN YOUR NEW Medicare card hadn’t shown up by Thanksgiving, you thought, “Oh, well … I have other things to be thankful for. Santa will… Continue reading
MANY OF YOU who have paid any attention to these columns at all for the past 950 or more weeks are painfully aware that I’ve… Continue reading
ONE OF MY many totally unrelated and utterly fragmented theories about life on planet Earth is what I call “Listen to the Day.” It just… Continue reading
MY BEST FRIEND and I have a large, wrought iron sign on our wall that says, “indulge.” Sometimes, I take that to heart. This is… Continue reading
HOW DO YOU say “goodbye,” when you can’t say goodbye? I don’t know. I’ll explain. I have a buddy …
well, actually, that understates it:… Continue reading
I THINK MOST of us are familiar, directly or indirectly, with the phrase, “For a good time, call …” But how about “For a bad… Continue reading
I HOPE WE’RE all taking a moment to congratulate ourselves. We got through Medicare Part D open enrollment, Thanksgiving, Christmas (or whatever you might celebrate),… Continue reading
PRESUMABLY, MOST OF us have the holidays behind us. OK, true, there might still be a few unidentified leftovers behind the milk and the unsolicited… Continue reading
LET’S BEGIN TODAY by making what might or might not be an obvious observation: The vast majority of us will never see the inside of… Continue reading
IT’S ALMOST NEW Year’s Eve, and you know what that means: Right. And, well, sure. Why not? Another thing that New Year’s Eve inevitably means… Continue reading
well, actually, I’ve known him for a… Continue reading
“THE STATE WILL take the house!” No, it won’t. Now, let’s back up: Obviously, I go on and on about where to call, or look… Continue reading
LAST MONTH, I went on about all the various deductibles, co-pays, etc. associated with Medicare Parts A and B in 2019. If you managed to… Continue reading
IN CASE ANY of us are still uncertain, after the caloric overdose we characterize as Thanksgiving, the holiday season is upon us. Happily, this season… Continue reading
I SUPPOSE YOU’VE heard that the Social Security/Supplemental Security Income [SSI] COLA for 2019 will be 2.8 percent, right? And that they haven’t figured out… Continue reading
FOR REASONS THAT don’t warrant repeating, I noticed the other day that I’ve been doing this little column for 941 weeks. So 941 weeks divided… Continue reading
THIS IS ABOUT Medicare (again). It is not about Part D. In fact, it’s not about anything that you need to care about until Jan.… Continue reading
