Healthcare Reform: What does it mean for Medicare?

The new health care reform act aims to make health insurance more affordable, responsive, and universal, and there will be changes to Medicare that were mandated by the act.

One benefit will be the gradual disappearance of the "donut hole", a gap in prescription drug coverage that primarily affects seniors with very expensive medications.

Other changes include better coverage for preventive services beginning in 2011, and changes in what Medicare pays to certain health plans that cover seniors.

Join Kathy Worhach to hear all the details about what these changes mean for Medicare, and how you can determine what coverage is best for you.

Kathy is familiar to many as a former SHINE Counselor for Sudbury. She now works as a community educator for the SHINE program. Her talk is free of charge, but we do expect a full house. The room cannot accommodate more than 50, so please call 978-443-3055 to let us know that you are coming.

You will have a chance to change your coverage for 2011 during "open enrollment", a period that begins in November.