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Drop-In Time is a time where I hang out in a room at the library with a big table and a lot of chairs and help people with their technology problems for two and a half hours. These are their stories. It was cold today so I was warming up some water for tea and by the time I got upstairs at three past the hour there were four people waiting for me. Whoops!
Bob and Kathy had a Medicare prescription drug plan that wasn't going to be around next year so they needed help finding a new one.
@jessamyn I log directly into Medicare for my MIL and we update her medications and we can sort by total cost (premium and co-pays) etc. I was so glad of that option. Which reminds me I have to remind her again to send me her updated medication list - just in case it has changed. Medicare of course knows what has been prescribed that has run through part D already for the current year.
@nomdeb Yeah I told them over and over "This is NOT a government website" but they were like "This is the one our doctor friend told us to use" and would not be dissuaded.
@jessamyn Said doctor friend needs to be updated. 😊 I've actually been quite impressed with the Medicare Choices site. I didn't know about it until we dragged my MIL over to the senior center that had Medicare volunteers out. Once I realized they were just logging her into Medicare, we took over handling it each year for her.
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A friend of theirs who is a doctor recommended some website where they could comparison shop. They were stymied by it. Apparently one of the early steps is where you choose your local pharmacies. We have one local pharmacy, singular, so the website required them to scroll past a lot of white space to get to the continue button. Never considered a use case with ONLY ONE PHARMACY huh?