Why Doesn’t Medicare Pay for Long Term Care?

  Toni:             Recently in your Medicare column, you discussed home healthcare for the elderly. I would like to know about Long Term Care. I always thought Medicare covered long term care but now I am finding out I was totally wrong.               My mother has...

Rumors about the Affordable Care Act and Medicare?

  Toni:             I will be 70 on June 20, 2014 and have decided to retire effective June 1.  I have always had company benefits and because of healthcare reform my company is no longer covering retirees.  Now I have to make new Medicare choices.             I would...

I Am A Vet … and so Confused about My Medicare?

Reader Alert: 9 weeks to October 15th…Medicare’s Open Enrollment Countdown…   Toni:              I am a Vet and get my drugs from the VA. I am turning 65 in March 2013 and think it is ridiculous to pay $104.90 for Part B when I get everything for nothing at the VA. I...

New to Houston with Elderly Mother Hurricanes Scare Me!!

Hello Toni:             We are new to the Gulf Coast area and all of this Hurricane talk makes me nervous.  My 78 year old mother is living in an assisted living facility in the Sugar Land area.  What can I do to be prepared for a Hurricane or an emergency if one...