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Covid, Covid-19, Coronavirus, Social-Distancing, Quarantine, Pandemic….. Who would have known that as we turned the page in January to the land of 2020 that these words could possibly (1) be known to us and (2) part of our “new” daily world. Since March, we’ve added several new words to our everyday vocabulary. Stress, anxiety, furlough, early retirement, bored, depression, Cobra coverage, …
COBRA
Mistake after mistake after mistake….
It feels like we go in waves with Medicare. We suddenly have a week where there is a rash of "Medicare Mistakes" made by consumers. As we talk daily as a group of Medicare agents, we know that just about every one of the situations/mistakes could have been avoided had the consumer called us or someone like us PRIOR to doing or not doing what they did or did not do. Sounds pretty simple, right? …
COBRA and Medicare
We make a pretty big deal about COBRA and Medicare when we're talking to people. Our team's ears are trained to "perk up" when we hear the word "COBRA". To an employee that is separating from an employer for whatever reason, their ears don't perk up as ours do. They are concerned with keeping their insurance coverage at a hopefully affordable price. That's seriously all that they are thinking …