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I appreciate the recent column you wrote about the confusion people have between Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income payments. Could you please do the same for Medicare and Medicaid? I work in a doctor’s office and I swear that three-fourths of the elderly patients I deal with mix them up.

I know exactly what you mean. Every single week, I hear from dozens of folks who confuse these two government-run health insurance programs. In a nutshell, I can explain the major difference this way. Medicare is for anyone, rich or poor, who is 65 or older, or who is getting Social Security disability benefits. Medicaid is for poor people -- usually for folks who are on welfare or who are getting SSI benefits. Or to put that another way. Warren Buffet qualifies for Medicare benefits. But he will never be eligible for the Medicaid program. There are two major parts to Medicare, called A and B. Part A is hospital coverage that helps pay for inpatient hospital bills. It is paid for by payroll taxes deducted from worker’s paychecks. Because you pay for it while you are working, the coverage is free once you reach age 65, or once you’ve been getting Social Security disability benefits for 24 straight months. Part B of Medicare is called medical insurance. It provides coverage for doctor’s visits, lab tests, outpatient hospital care, etc. It is paid for by monthly premiums, usually deducted from your Social Security checks. Anyone 65 or older, or anyone who has been getting Social Security disability benefits for two years in a row, can apply for Part B Medicare coverage. (It is this Part B of Medicare that people usually mistakenly refer to as Medicaid. For example, many folks will tell me that they have “Medicare and Medicaid,” when what they really mean to say is that they have Parts A and B of Medicare.) There are also Parts C and D of Medicare. But they are not as common. Part C is sort of like an HMO version of Medicare. Part D provides prescription drug coverage. Medicaid helps pay for a broad range of medical services for poor people in this country. It is most frequently tied to our nation’s primary welfare program for the elderly and disabled population, the Supplemental Security Income program. So if you are getting SSI, you also will get Medicaid coverage. Even though Medicaid is tied to the federal SSI program, it is administered by state social service agencies, more commonly known as welfare offices.

I am getting Social Security disability benefits. When I die, will my wife qualify for my disability payments?

Your wife wouldn’t qualify for your “disability payments,” per se. But what she could qualify for is monthly widow’s benefits, assuming she meets the eligibility criteria. In a nutshell, she would get widow’s benefits if she is 60 or older when you die.

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Every year, you are given a task. That task is a vote. While some would say the task is an easy one, you know better. For your Hall of by Anne McCollam Fame vote is all that stands between the chasm that divides the words “mediocre” and “legend.” Some envy you. You are the baseball Darrell and Judy Fuller created their writers of America. You possess a talent, an abilCedar Duck company in 1981. Darrell carved the ity that can elevate the mundane to the miracuducks, and Judy painted them. Wood duck decoys lous. But others despise you. When their heroes I was given the porcelain plate have a special place in American folk art that can are overlooked, when their favorite players seen in this photo by a friend of mine who’s be traced back to the 1800s. The Fullers’ mission whom they watched 162 days and nights each 92 years old. It is 7 1/2 inches in diameter was to carry on the concept of the decoy as a deco- year are deemed to be second rate, it seems to and decorated with pastel flowers against a rative art object. They have made a wide range of be an arrogant dismissal of what they and most white background. It is in mint condition. The ducks and shorebirds that include the mallard, pin- everyone values the most: their time. Time was when a relief pitcher was conunique thing about this plate is the stamp on tail wood duck, loon, Canadian goose, sandpiper the back. It is marked “Schumann-Arzberg.” and woodcock. Their ducks were available in sev- sidered somebody who couldn’t cut the mustard It appears that the words “Arzberg -- Bavar- eral sizes and usually made of basswood, cedar, and make the starting rotation. Of course, there also was a time when starting rotations consistia -- Germany” were superimposed over the pine and butternut. 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Right there, that Your porcelain plate was made by Carl Charming one-bedroom villas in an exclusive gated Indian Wells community are now available for less should make the case. They’re worth it because Schumann Porcelain Factory in the early to midcost than a country club golf membership! These a win is a win. Many a team has lost the division 20th century. Schumann founded his company in value-priced units come with the following perks: by four games. Arzberg, Bavaria, Germany, in 1882. The factory Automatic membership for two in the exclusive But there’s more to it than that. Do not was owned and operated by the Schumann family Indian Wells Golf Resort with no initiation fee or mistake brevity for lack of worth. Yes, good startuntil its closing in 1994. Your plate was imported to monthly assessment. 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