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For people who have Medicare, there are changes, including new benefits, because the affordable child care Act was signed last year.

Consumer reports has now a free guide to explain the changes in Medicare. Free copies of “Medicare: 6 things you need to know now” by calling the number-free-855-CR-guide or a visit to ConsumerReportsHealth.org available for a limited time.

Order or download a free copy of the Guide for reports of consumers for Medicare online, click here.

“This guide will help people navigate the changes in the Medicare and take full advantage of the new services available under the law,” said Jim Guest, President of the Union, the Publisher of Consumer Reports consumer nonprofit organization. “If you have Medicare, eligible, or a loved one in the program, the help of the Guide to sort through what’s new in the current system.” With new benefits such as discounts from drug and available free health screenings, this guide explains how most of them.

The 15-page guide provides information about changes in Medicare is easy to understand:

• If you have Medicare and struggle with the cost of prescription drugs, the guide explains the expanded drug discounts all is available when the gap in Medicare plans known as the “donut hole” drug.

• For those who have preventive visits to the doctor they jump because they cannot pay, the manual describes the options of free coverage and low costs for certain preventive services, such as visits annual welfare, mammograms, and tests of prostate cancer and flu vaccines.

• The guide explains the changes in the Medicare Advantage plans, such as new restrictions on their annual progress.

• If you have relatively high incomes, the guide takes you through important changes in what you pay for.

• At the beginning of this year, the registration period open to change Medicare plans is the beginning and end of earlier dates, and the guide helps you to check the new dates and to understand their options.

• If you are on the edge of the age of 65, find what you need to know before you enroll in Medicare.

• The back of the guide provides a portion of the Fund’s resources with contact information of the main bodies to your specific questions about Medicare, including the toll-free numbers to help you in every State.

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