Robyn Has Put Up A Poll on Medicare Topic - Please Vote

[Happy in Wyoming]

Originally Posted by WellShoneMoon

I don't much care where the Medicare information ends up. I'll just subscribe to that forum.

I dislike separating wheat from chaff; at my age Medicare and its supplements are my only health insurance interests. I certainly don't consider reeading about health insrance to be recreational reading. Yech!

[AZgarden]

Originally Posted by WellShoneMoon

There are ads on every page of every thread, after the first post of the page. They're for websites of all different kinds. Fortunately, the ads are very low-key. I'll bet the advertisers are unhappy with your comment, since you're clearly not seeing the ads they're paying for!

Well wadda ya know? I never even saw them until now.

[Ariadne22]

Originally Posted by PhxBarb

OOOH, I am so confused. First, I thought the poll was too complicated. So I didn't vote.

That's why I posted this when I began this thread:

Originally Posted by Ariadne22

Fwiw, choice TWO means you prefer Medicare have its own subforum - either in Health Insurance (or, hopefully, here in Retirement).

Originally Posted by PhxBarb

Next, I see that Medicare is right UNDER the retirement forum already, so what's the big complaint?

Because, as far as we know, that link is only posted there temporarily and will disappear one day.

[Tek_Freek]

Originally Posted by PhxBarb

Next, I see that Medicare is right UNDER the retirement forum already, so what's the big complaint?

It's not a Medicare Forum that is linked, it's the Health Insurance and Medicare Forum. If the reasoning behind the change had anything to do with the Medicare threads being hard to find amongst the other topics then the move was a total failure. It's now in the middle of a slew of other topics, albeit different in nature, and in my mind less closely related in need.

[Ariadne22]

Originally Posted by Tek_Freek

It's not a Medicare Forum that is linked, it's the Health Insurance and Medicare Forum.

Except for new users to C-D, the Forum is Health Insurance. Medicare is not mentioned anywhere in the title. The only reason the above link says Medicare is for our use. That link won't remain, I don't think.

[Caladium]

Originally Posted by Ariadne22

Except for new users to C-D, the Forum is Health Insurance. Medicare is not mentioned anywhere in the title. The only reason the above link says Medicare is for our use. That link won't remain, I don't think.

Two easy solutions for these problems:

1. Making the link a sticky will keep it permanently at the top of Retirement Forum.

2. Although the Admin probably has reasons for creating a new forum, they might not care much what the name of it is. Which means they might be open to changing the name to Medicare & Insurance, rather than Insurance & Medicare. The trick to asking for a name change, IMO, is to have people from this forum make it a point to post over there. If the Medicare threads are routinely at the top of the page day after day, they might be open to the idea.

Another solution might be to request a trial period for this new forum. We could give it a try for 3-4 months, and then if it turns out the new forum isn't getting any interest, the admin would be much more receptive to the idea of returning the threads to Retirement forum.

[Sam I Am]

Again, to my knowledge the link WILL remain.

Robyn's poll has been moved to About the Forum. Any comments need to be made in that thread, which is here:

Separate Medicare Sub-Forum?

I'll close this thread and any further comments will need to be directed to the thread above.

Thanks.

Sam