• I'm retiring abroad. What Medicare plan should I get?

    I'm retiring abroad. What Medicare plan should I get?

    Dec 28, 2016 08:03 PM EST

    Editor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller, who writes widely on aging and retirement, is here to provide the answers you need. Phil is the author of the new book, “Get What’s Yours for Medicare,” and co-author of “Get What’s Yours: The Revised Secrets to Maxing Out Your ...

  • Column: What can we do to protect Medicare and Social Security?

    Column: What can we do to protect Medicare and Social Security?

    Dec 21, 2016 10:40 PM EST

    Editor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller, who writes widely on aging and retirement, is here to provide the answers you need. Phil is the author of the new book, “Get What’s Yours for Medicare,” and co-author of “Get What’s Yours: The Revised Secrets to Maxing Out Your ...

  • Column: Social Security needs to be reformed, not have its funding cut

    Column: Social Security needs to be reformed, not have its funding cut

    Dec 14, 2016 07:51 PM EST

    Editor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller, who writes widely on aging and retirement, is here to provide the answers you need. Phil is the author of the new book, “Get What’s Yours for Medicare,” and co-author of “Get What’s Yours: The Revised Secrets to Maxing Out Your ...

  • How plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act could affect Medicare

    How plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act could affect Medicare

    Dec 08, 2016 04:51 PM EST

    Editor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller, who writes widely on aging and retirement, is here to provide the answers you need in “Ask Phil.” Phil is the author of the new book, “Get What’s Yours for Medicare,” and co-author of “Get What’s Yours: The Revised Secrets to ...

  • Don’t forget to do some last minute Medicare shopping

    Don’t forget to do some last minute Medicare shopping

    Dec 01, 2016 04:57 PM EST

    Editor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller, who writes widely on aging and retirement, is here to provide the answers you need in “Ask Phil.” Phil is the author of the new book, “Get What’s Yours for Medicare,” and co-author of “Get What’s Yours: The Revised Secrets to ...

  • Column: Under a President Trump, Medicare reforms are a matter of when, not if

    Column: Under a President Trump, Medicare reforms are a matter of when, not if

    Nov 23, 2016 04:43 PM EST

    Donald Trump's victory has put our entire health care system in play, if not up for grabs. Will Trump and a Republican Congress follow through on pledges to end the Affordable Care Act? How might ACA changes affect Medicare?

  • Column: Who's paying the true cost of Medicare

    Column: Who's paying the true cost of Medicare

    Nov 16, 2016 09:12 PM EST

    There is a myth that consumers have completely paid for their Medicare. Yet, our payroll taxes come nowhere close to paying for program expenses.

  • Here's how to find the Medicare Part D drug plan right for you

    Here's how to find the Medicare Part D drug plan right for you

    Nov 02, 2016 07:24 PM EST

    For 2017 plans, active shopping may yield the greatest benefits in Medicare Part D prescription drug plans.

  • Column: Questionable Social Security and Medicare policies put seniors in a bind

    Column: Questionable Social Security and Medicare policies put seniors in a bind

    Oct 26, 2016 06:29 PM EST

    Social Security announced last week that its annual cost of living adjustment would be a paltry three-tenths of 1 percent in 2017. This small increase is not only unfair to Social Security recipients, but will also trigger an absolute mess with Part B Medicare premiums for the second straight year.

  • Are you ready to navigate the overwhelming choices of Medicare?

    Are you ready to navigate the overwhelming choices of Medicare?

    Oct 19, 2016 08:27 PM EST

    You need to learn enough to buy the right policies and then, of equal if not greater importance, how to best use them to get the best medical care you can at the lowest price. Do not expect Medicare or your insurers to do this for you!