by Andrew Bennett | Oct 4, 2016 | Health Insurance, Uncategorized
What should I go with? What do you recommend? Which one do you think is best? After I’ve explained the basics of Medicare to folks and we are looking at supplements those are probably the three questions I get asked most often. So what am I to say? If you have...
by Andrew Bennett | Oct 4, 2016 | Health Insurance, Medicare, Uncategorized
I was recently at a meeting organized by one of the major insurance carriers. The big topic was open enrollment and the goal was to get us excited about selling Medicare Advantage plans. They talked about how much money the company made when they sold Medicare...
by Andrew Bennett | Aug 23, 2016 | Medicare, Uncategorized
I get this question a lot when people are turning 65 and they aren’t sure what they want to do. They want to make sure they can make changes down the road if they need to. Well…here’s the skinny…. Open enrollment is October 15th to December...
by Andrew Bennett | Aug 16, 2016 | Life Insurance, Uncategorized
I have $1,650,000 in term life insurance. That is a big number to a lot of people. Here’s the thing, it does not go as far as you think it might. If something happens to me I’ve told my wife this is how I want it distributed. First, use $150,000 or so to pay off the...
by Andrew Bennett | Aug 9, 2016 | Medicare, Uncategorized
Which way do I go? Do I choose a Medicare Advantage plan that has a built in pharmacy benefit? Or do I go with Traditional Medicare and get a separate part D plan and a separate supplement…and then which supplement? Which one is less expensive? These are all...
by Andrew Bennett | Jul 27, 2016 | Medicare, Uncategorized
In the world of Medicare you have several choices, but the first is to decide whether to go with “Traditional” Medicare or with a Medicare “Advantage” plan. What doctors you can go to will be highly impacted by this decision. With Traditional Medicare (also called...
