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MissB

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11. My mom signed up for them

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Fri Dec 6, 2024, 10:52 AM

Dec 6

I believe that she was swayed by their in person presentations at some senior community center gathering. About 15 years ago, I started noticing that her mental acuity was declining slightly. Nothing major - things like not being able to calculate percentages all of a sudden. She used to be quite a savvy shopper, able to calculate prices on the fly (obviously using percent off calculations).

She now gets some free stuff each month from UnitedHealth, like a voucher of some sort that she can only use at RiteAid or Walgreens or some such. I'm not surprised that she was easily swayed into picking UnitedHealth as her Medicare Advantage provider. I doubt she was given any information on the downside of picking them (or any other Medicare Advantage plan).

A few years back, she'd fallen in her bathroom and spent the week on the floor before being discovered. ER discovered she had covid and pneumonia. She wasn't exactly oriented to time or place at that point, but mostly she was suddenly in poor physical condition because of that week on the floor. UnitedHealth forced her release from the hospital before she could even really move. It wasn't what I had in mind for that particular day, but I had a few hours notice that I (or someone) had to go pick her up else she'd incur some ridiculous daily rate that UnitedHealth wouldn't cover. My siblings and I all live about 3 hours away. When I picked her up from the hospital, she couldn't even walk a few paces to the car.

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