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Anyone approaching Medicare eligibility should understand when you can and cannot get coverage. Here are the facts.

Original Medicare pays for dental care only in limited situations. Here are the times when it will and will not help pay your dentist bill.

Dozens of health insurance companies offer hundreds of Medicare Advantage plans all across the country. Some have good reputations; others do not.

Are those zero dollar Medicare TV commercials true? Sometimes yes ... sometimes no.

Medicare's doctor network is giant ... so large, in fact, that it's technically not even a network. Here's how it works.

Some Medicare supplement plans give surprisingly good coverage for a surprisingly low monthly premium. Here's how to find them.

Here's how supplemental insurance coverage works with Medicare and why so many people have it.

Today's Medicare goes all the way back to 1912. A lot has changed since Rossevelt's bold idea more than 100 years ago.

Health care is an expensive business in America and the Medicare program is its biggest customer. Here's how much it spends and how that might change in the future.

Medicare is the single largest payer of prescription drugs in America. It wasn't always that way. Here's what changed.

There are 1,000 Medicare drug plans in America but many of them have the same benefits. Here's what to know about Part D benefit designs.