COLUMN: Selecting a Medicare plan as a public retiree
The couple were wrestling with a thorny question that many Oregon public employees confront each year: In moving from active employment to Medicare, should they enroll in a PERS Medicare insurance plan or in one on the open market?
It’s a consequential question whose answer depends on an individual’s unique circumstances.
The couple took their question to a Senior Health Insurance Benefits Assistance volunteer counselor in hopes of finding the information they needed to make…
