Health insurance and early retirement

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The reality is that more and more physicians and hospital groups are dropping MA plans because they all come with the same built in barriers to care regardless of carrier.

25 Healthcare Systems Drop Medicare Advantage

A retiree in Wisconsin opens a letter from her cardiologist’s office: starting next January, the hospital system will no longer be in-network for her Humana (NYSE: HUM) Medicare Advantage plan. She has been with that cardiologist for nine years. Her first instinct is to switch back to Original Medicare and buy a Medigap policy. That intention is understandable. Whether it works depends on her health, her state, and one unforgiving deadline. Likely now she will be considered uninsurable. Hosp…