Dear Liz: I’ve read your most recent columns about Medicare Advantage and believe that more should be said before people decide to go that route. You mentioned that switching from Medicare Advantage to Medicare itself can be problematic.... My husband also could not go to a doctor I had because we were signed up at different local hospitals.So I phoned Medicare in 2009 and a young man was so helpful, and in no time we were back on Medicare.... Surprisingly, we also have coverage for foreign me

Dear Liz: What is the difference between ETFs, mutual funds and index funds?... Investors buy and sell without knowing precisely what the share price will be, since that’s calculated after they place their orders with the mutual fund company.... ETFs, or exchange-traded funds, by contrast, trade throughout the day on stock exchanges and can be worth more or less than the underlying investments, depending on demand. Most mutual funds are actively managed....

Earlier this year, hundreds of New York City retirees protested the city’s plan to change their healthcare.... Print More than half a century ago, while working as a teenage playground aide, I made my first payroll-deducted contributions to Social Security and Medicare. Recently the federal government sent me a letter informing me that I’m about to begin collecting on my investment.... I went with the latter, which meant leaving money on the table while worrying that I’ll drop dead 10 minutes

Dear Liz: My husband and I are in our 50s and have widowed moms in their 80s.... Answer: What you’re asking about is known as traditional or original Medicare, which consists of two parts.... Part A is usually premium-free and covers hospitalization....

Dear Liz: I may inherit$ 500, 000 but do not necessarily need the money for my retirement.... If you do so correctly, the assets will pass to the next beneficiary as dictated by the estate documents( or by state law, in the absence of a will or living trust).... If you think you’ll want this option, definitely discuss this with your parents and their estate planning attorney so the documents can be set up properly. Keep in mind that few families have enough wealth to be affected by gift or est

by Jodi LiuDiscussion of single-payer health care systems increased somewhat last week with the introduction by Sen.... Yet there is no agreement on how to set up and pay for a single-payer system in the U.S.or how much that system would cost.... Advocates assert that a single-payer system would cost less than the status quo, but the savings are not automatic, and how much it would save is far from clear. The spending required for a single-payer system depends on the price of care and the serv

In the days after CNN's reporting, other past comments and actions from recent years resurfaced, including a confrontation with Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg, and another post agreeing with people who said the Parkland shooting was a" false flag" operation.... Republicans control just under half the seats in the chamber, and GOP leadership has not shown any steps so far toward reprimanding Greene for her comments or previous posts.... Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey Rep....

Trump's call to halt vote counts is his most brazen swipe at democracy yet Trump said," Millions and millions of people voted for us tonight, and a very sad group of people is trying to disenfranchise that group of people.... Democratic leaders were simply calling for all of the votes to be counted.... Frankly, we did win this election." Facts First: This is false, at least at the time Trump spoke....

Since then, he's done next to nothing--at least publicly--to suggest he plans to continue doing the job in any serious manner through January 20. Trump has no public events on his schedule Tuesday, the 10th time since the election that's been the case, according to CNN's Kevin Liptak.... What has Trump filled his days with, you ask?... Trump was also on the golf course the previous weekend, when Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 race by CNN and other media outlets....

" President Donald Trump tweeted just before midnight on Sunday night.... So this was a fitting conclusion to his lie-filled weekend barrage of tweets, in which he continued to invent imaginary evidence in support of his attempt to deny Joe Biden's victory.... Almost nothing Trump is saying about the election is true; Twitter affixed a fact check label to more than 30 of his election-related tweets and retweets between Friday and Monday morning....