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    Medicare Open Enrollment: What To Know Before Friday's Deadline

    If you're 65 years old or older or about to enter that age group, it might be a good time to consider your plan options to avoid headaches down the line.
    Dec 06, 2018 4 minutes
    A man reads literature on Medicare at an event sponsored by MetroPlus, a prepaid health services plan, on June 23, 2017 in New York City. The Harlem seniors were provided with Medicare education and health care options at the event. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

    Friday is the deadline to sign up for this year’s Medicare open enrollment. If you are 65 years old or older, or about to enter that age group, it might be a good time to consider your plan options to avoid headaches down the line.

    Here & Now‘s Robin Young learns more from Julie Rovner (@jrovner), chief Washington correspondent for Kaiser Health News.

    “Medicare, it’s much beloved, but it’s also very complicated,” Rovner says.

    How Does Medicare Open Enrollment Work?

    “There are actually sort of three types of open enrollment for Medicare,” Rovner says. “The one that we’re in now that ends at the end of

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