Seniors

A friend said, "They should have had us sign up for this in our 40s when we might have been able to understand it."

We used a company called EnlightenU, which was one of many that sent us what looked like sales pitches as we neared 65. They explained that all insurance companies that are allowed to sell Medicare supplemental plans have to offer a training. All of those envelopes actually had training sessions--all of those envelopes I kept throwing into a file called "Medicare" and never opened--because a friend of my husband's who is a couple of years older told us about EnlightenU. We went to their training--a pretty big room full of people who seemed much older than we are --that used excellent adult education techniques. Without it, we would never have figured it out.