Monday Medicare Series Part 1 : What is Medicare?

Print this entryWritten by Alex M. Hendler, Founder, Ontolawgy, LLC This is the first part of a 4-part series about Medicare. This part gives a very general overview of the program. Parts 2, 3 and 4 describe who can get Medicare coverage, what Medicare covers, and how much coverage and health care can cost a patient under Medicare. There are links throughout these posts to some of the laws and policies that dictate how Medicare works. You don’t have to follow those links to understand what’s going on, but they may help you to understand why it can be difficult to get a straight answer about what Medicare does and doesn’t do, and how much it could cost you. What is Medicare? Medicare is a health insurance program offered by the U.S. Government for certain people living in the U.S. People who are enrolled in the Medicare program are typically called “Medicare beneficiaries”, ...