Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Exactly. Medicare needs to be a sub-forum in Retirement. Thanks for letting us know about the poll.
There aren't enough threads for a viable subforum. It needs to be either under Health Insurance for those to love to read about health insurance of all kinds or under Retirement where people expect it to be.
We could solve the problem, however, if we changed the name of the Retirement forum to Retirement and Aging which is the way the topics of the Self-Sufficiency and Preparedness forum are juxtaposed. I'd prefer simply call it Geriatrics which is inclusive but I know that is not to be.
I won't be subscribing to Caregiving or Health Insurance or Grief and Mourning. I used to read some of these threads when they were posted here but those other fora are in general of little or no interest to me. At the rate we're going there soon won't be any topics left for this forum. I'm surprised that 55+ communities that feature golf haven't been moved to Sports or golf cart communities to Green Living. In fact, all threads about places to retire could (should?) be moved to the appropriate state fora.
Some retire before they are eligible for Medicare; some work after they are eligible. It's not connected with retirement; it's about being or not being over 65.
We could solve the problem, however, if we changed the name of the Retirement forum to Retirement and Aging which is the way the topics of the Self-Sufficiency and Preparedness forum are juxtaposed. I'd prefer simply call it Geriatrics which is inclusive but I know that is not to be.
Some retire before they are eligible for Medicare; some work after they are eligible. It's not connected with retirement; it's about being or not being over 65.
This has been beaten to death over the past couple of years. I agree changing the name to Retirement and Aging is preferable to splitting up the Retirement Forum. As to your second paragraph, the first sentence is unarguable. But I would add one word to the second sentence to make it read, "It's not necessarily connected with retirement;...."
The fact that retirement from full-time work may not always coincide exactly with enrollment in Medicare is really just semantic quibbling because for the majority of people the ages of doing both are very close. It's rare to retire at 45, although it does happen. It's also rare to retire at 75, although that happens too. I retired at 61, but my mind was on Medicare and that was part of my thinking and planning. For me, as for the vast majority, those two questions present themselves together, not separately, and that's why Medicare belongs right here in the Retirement Forum, whether as a separate sub-forum of the Retirement Forum or not.
This has been beaten to death over the past couple of years. I agree changing the name to Retirement and Aging is preferable to splitting up the Retirement Forum. As to your second paragraph, the first sentence is unarguable. But I would add one word to the second sentence to make it read, "It's not necessarily connected with retirement;...."
The fact that retirement from full-time work may not always coincide exactly with enrollment in Medicare is really just semantic quibbling because for the majority of people the ages of doing both are very close. It's rare to retire at 45, although it does happen. It's also rare to retire at 75, although that happens too. I retired at 61, but my mind was on Medicare and that was part of my thinking and planning. For me, as for the vast majority, those two questions present themselves together, not separately, and that's why Medicare belongs right here in the Retirement Forum, whether as a separate sub-forum of the Retirement Forum or not.
I agree. Your extra word is an improvement.
I don't believe that this forum is so large as to need any subfora. I think as long as it is small it's best to keep things together.
I've tried Subscribed Forums. It's too confusing. I prefer to go through an entire forum at one time, not a list of commingled subjects. Some days I'll spend far too long on Unemployment, only to head over to Retirement to check out what is doing there and can get lost in some of those threads for a really long time - especially the debates on the financial solvency of SS.
I prefer to hit the individual forums separately, depending on my mood. Some days I have no interest in what is going on in Retirement, another day no interest in what is going on in Investing. To continually see a list of new posts on forums in which I have no interest on any particular day is annoying to me.
Instead of putting several forums on Subscribed Forums, try using it this way:
1. When you select which forums to subscribe to, choose only the Retirement and Health Insurance forums. This merges the two forums, letting you see all the Medicare threads right along with the other retirement topics.
2. Click on the other forums you like in your usual way. The only difference will be the instead of clicking on Retirement Forum button, you click on Subscribed Forums button. You're still just clicking on one button to access all the threads you want--the only difference is you're using a different button.
BTW, it's just a suggestion--if you don't want to use Subscribed Forums it's ok by me. I just think it's a very easy solution.
OOOH, I am so confused. First, I thought the poll was too complicated. So I didn't vote.
Next, I see that Medicare is right UNDER the retirement forum already, so what's the big complaint?
Also, I don't "subscribe" to anything. I just read what I want to and post when I feel its appropriate.
Lastly, how do the advertisers make money? I don't see any ads here for anything. How does it work? Sorry, am having brain fog today.......................
Lastly, how do the advertisers make money? I don't see any ads here for anything. How does it work? Sorry, am having brain fog today.......................
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!
And, on another note, I prefer to use Subscribed Forums. Sometimes I'll look at the whole General Forums page and scroll down and click on an interesting sounding title that's not in my subscribed forums, but that's only for times when I have a lot of time to kill.
Otherwise, my default C-D page (saved to my Favorites bar) is the Subscribed Forums page. It does have a column entitled "Forum" so I can quickly scan that to see if there's a particular one of my subscribed forums that I want to look at first, but the real advantage is that it shows me at a glance when there's a new post in all of the forums I am subscribed to.
I don't much care where the Medicare information ends up. I'll just subscribe to that forum.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
