Medicare information is easier to find than ever

Medicare is a term well known to Americans. What it is, exactly, is less well known. And the big question of who qualifies for Medicare and what that means leaves many of us out in the cold.

Here's the good news. The days are over when your best avenue of research on the topic involved searching for educational pamphlets in public buildings, waiting to see a news report that explained a few details, or asking friends and family to give you their best guess. Thanks to the convenience of the Internet you can find good, solid information about this country's great social insurance program twenty-four hours a day. If you've got questions, you very well may find the answers you're looking for at a website with the easy to remember address of; Medicare.gov.

Under some circumstances the information you find on the website may lead to more questions than answers. But that's actually good. Because when you're armed with educated questions, your odds of finding educated and accurate answers go way up.

One of the more important pieces of information you will find at the U.S. Government's Medicare information portal these days is the news that Medicare open enrollment runs from October 15 – December 7, 2011. Whether you determine it's best to join, or drop coverage, or switch your health or drug coverage – this is the time to do it, and this is a great place for you to start your search for information about the available options.

Health care is a critical need. Going along with that need is the realization that our health care solutions have to be affordable for us to make the most of them. With that in mind, I hope you will make good use of this free resource that can help you make your selections, or at least help you determine which aspects of Medicare you would like to be more aware of.