Outside the Box: Why is signing up for Medicare so complicated and potentially expensive?

So it begins again—trying to figure out the mess that is Medicare.

A 132-page book from the Department of Health & Human Services arrived in the mail recently. “Medicare & You 2022” is four pages longer than the 2021 edition I received earlier this year, when I was turning age 65. I could barely bring myself to pore through the pages of that one, as I endeavored to understand the myriad choices facing me as I hit that magic milestone. Does this task really need to be so complicated and potentially expensive?

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