I've done it!
I have reached my goal, if
that is what you want to call it!
Since this is my birth month of when I turn 65 years of age, and I already have Social Security as an early retirement person, I am now on Medicare, and I can chuck my interim insurance card and all the problems I had with it!
Oh, what a relief it is!
Now I can pay through the nose for Medicare through my whopping monthly Social Security payment, and let’s see where this takes me!
I’m through with the exclamation points on this Rant, but happy April Fools' Day anyway, even though what I told you is actually true, and not a joke or white lie to fit the occasion.
I had nothing but problems with the interim insurance that I was forced to use when my wife retired from her job and my family—our son, too—lost our health insurance that we received through her former employer.
Whether it was simply getting the insurance—New York State of Health is a real quagmire of potholes to go through to get something, anything—to paying for the insurance—due to s mistake on both the aforementioned New York State site and by the actual insurance, the monthly price of the insurance was incorrect, and leave it to me to find the discrepancy and try to convince these parties of the obvious—to actually using this insurance—which bloated what I owed a few doctors by four times what I had been paying—this thing has been a nightmare from the beginning when I got it five months ago.
I should have known I was going to have trouble, but when actual medical people told me that what I had “was the worst health insurance you could possibly have,” I kind of figured that I had entered into the abyss.
And when I found out that the stipend that New York State gave me to pay for a few months of the insurance was taxed by the federal government as earned income, well, I had fully entered the abyss and was drowning in it.
Now, happily, I don’t have to worry about that anymore, although I know that Medicare isn’t all it is cracked up to be, and that is why you see Joe Namath and Jimmie Walker and a talking horse on commercials telling you that you need a Medicare supplement.
Without it, the door to the abyss is wide open for you to fall into it again.
Happily, I have that supplement, and yes, you pay for that too, so while the abyss door is open, I hopefully won’t ever have to get even one foot in that door again.
Let’s see what happens, but whatever the case, I look at today, April Fools' Day, as my day of independence.
And unlike others, when somebody asks me when I went onto Medicare, I won’t have to approximate when; I will be able to tell them the exact day and year, for whatever that is worth.
April Fools' Day of 2022 … and hopefully, I am not the fool.
Focusing on April Fools' Day, I remember that several years ago, in this very column, I told people that I was giving up The Ranting and Raving Blog, but of course, that was a white lie to go with the parameters of the holiday.
I also remember that many years ago, one of the local radio stations had a day-long April Fools' Day joke, that real estate magnate Donald Trump had purchased the New York Yankees from George Steinbrenner, and they went with that with phony news conferences and fake news reports, just to get their white lie across … and it made quite an impression, even though it wasn’t true.
I remember as a kid, telling people that it was the year behind us on this day, so in other words, I would tell people that we were in 1966 and not 1967 as we actually were, and I guess I thought that that was in the true spirit of the day and was funny.
But nothing is so funny as something that is actually the truth on this day, so my April fools Day joke this year is that I am finally on Medicare …
And it isn’t any white lie to suit the day, it is true, true, TRUE!
There goes those exclamation points again.
I swore I would not use them again today, but I guess that that is my April Fools' Day joke on you.
Heck, when you have been to the abyss and back like I have, I guess the jokes aren’t that great, unless you have lived them like I have.
Time will 0tell who the joke is really on, and I am hoping that it isn’t on me!
Heck, there goes that exclamation point again!
Please, just humor me on April Fools' Day!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you very much!
Have a great holiday, a great weekend, and I will speak to you again on Monday!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Since this is my birth month of when I turn 65 years of age, and I already have Social Security as an early retirement person, I am now on Medicare, and I can chuck my interim insurance card and all the problems I had with it!
Oh, what a relief it is!
Now I can pay through the nose for Medicare through my whopping monthly Social Security payment, and let’s see where this takes me!
I’m through with the exclamation points on this Rant, but happy April Fools' Day anyway, even though what I told you is actually true, and not a joke or white lie to fit the occasion.
I had nothing but problems with the interim insurance that I was forced to use when my wife retired from her job and my family—our son, too—lost our health insurance that we received through her former employer.
Whether it was simply getting the insurance—New York State of Health is a real quagmire of potholes to go through to get something, anything—to paying for the insurance—due to s mistake on both the aforementioned New York State site and by the actual insurance, the monthly price of the insurance was incorrect, and leave it to me to find the discrepancy and try to convince these parties of the obvious—to actually using this insurance—which bloated what I owed a few doctors by four times what I had been paying—this thing has been a nightmare from the beginning when I got it five months ago.
I should have known I was going to have trouble, but when actual medical people told me that what I had “was the worst health insurance you could possibly have,” I kind of figured that I had entered into the abyss.
And when I found out that the stipend that New York State gave me to pay for a few months of the insurance was taxed by the federal government as earned income, well, I had fully entered the abyss and was drowning in it.
Now, happily, I don’t have to worry about that anymore, although I know that Medicare isn’t all it is cracked up to be, and that is why you see Joe Namath and Jimmie Walker and a talking horse on commercials telling you that you need a Medicare supplement.
Without it, the door to the abyss is wide open for you to fall into it again.
Happily, I have that supplement, and yes, you pay for that too, so while the abyss door is open, I hopefully won’t ever have to get even one foot in that door again.
Let’s see what happens, but whatever the case, I look at today, April Fools' Day, as my day of independence.
And unlike others, when somebody asks me when I went onto Medicare, I won’t have to approximate when; I will be able to tell them the exact day and year, for whatever that is worth.
April Fools' Day of 2022 … and hopefully, I am not the fool.
Focusing on April Fools' Day, I remember that several years ago, in this very column, I told people that I was giving up The Ranting and Raving Blog, but of course, that was a white lie to go with the parameters of the holiday.
I also remember that many years ago, one of the local radio stations had a day-long April Fools' Day joke, that real estate magnate Donald Trump had purchased the New York Yankees from George Steinbrenner, and they went with that with phony news conferences and fake news reports, just to get their white lie across … and it made quite an impression, even though it wasn’t true.
I remember as a kid, telling people that it was the year behind us on this day, so in other words, I would tell people that we were in 1966 and not 1967 as we actually were, and I guess I thought that that was in the true spirit of the day and was funny.
But nothing is so funny as something that is actually the truth on this day, so my April fools Day joke this year is that I am finally on Medicare …
And it isn’t any white lie to suit the day, it is true, true, TRUE!
There goes those exclamation points again.
I swore I would not use them again today, but I guess that that is my April Fools' Day joke on you.
Heck, when you have been to the abyss and back like I have, I guess the jokes aren’t that great, unless you have lived them like I have.
Time will 0tell who the joke is really on, and I am hoping that it isn’t on me!
Heck, there goes that exclamation point again!
Please, just humor me on April Fools' Day!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you very much!
Have a great holiday, a great weekend, and I will speak to you again on Monday!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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