How does COBRA work with my Medicare plan?
If you're Medicare-eligible, don't assume COBRA has your back
Phil Moeller is the author of Get What’s Yours for Medicare: Maximize Your Coverage, Minimize Your Costs and the co-author of the updated edition of The New York Times bestseller Get What’s Yours: The Revised Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security, with Making Sen$e’s Paul Solman and Larry Kotlikoff.
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