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[vermint]

@SharkE  We get those calls too, though not as many since we got rid of our landline. I don't pick up ANY call that I don't recognize the number, unless I'm expecting an important call, and not sure of the number they will be calling from, like deliveries. The ones I don't answer? If they don't leave a message, that's on them!

[vermint]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@SharkE    Hmmmm, you must be on somebody's list because I've never gotten a single call about anything to do with Medicare.

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@Kachina624  Either you're very lucky, or you have an excellent call blocker. Right now I'm getting 2-3 of those calls most days. We got sometimes 8-10 a day when we had a landline. These are not calls about "Medicare", but about the supplements since it will be open enrollment soon, if it's not already. I'm satisfied with my current plan, so I haven't paid attention to the date it starts.

[Kachina624]

@vermint    All of the above.  I do have a good call blocker.  I've been on Medicare longer than most of you, before they started call lists and hard sell advertising.  I never shopped for a supplement, since mine is with the group from which I retired, so I never gave my name or number to anyone.  I'd never change my supplement since its free with no copay, deductible or any payment to anyone.

[bikerbabe]

I love holidays and look forward to them. 🎃 🦃🎄

[Jacie]

My phone is strictly for MY convenience, not theirs. Don't answer.

[chrystaltree]

I'm getting those calls and 3 years away from being eligible for Medicare.  I assume it's because I retired a few months but I didn't take my SSA benefit.  I'm waiting for my full retirement age.  I get 3 or 4 calls a day but I just hang up when they go into their spiel. 

[SharkE]

yeah, whenever anybody starts off with "How's your day"?   I know it's somebody trying to hawk something. LOL    I'd love to say not to **** good, my internet is down, My cable and Tivo isn't working. I had to get up early to wait on ISP if you don't answer the door in under 5 seconds they drive off.   don't call U when they're on way out either.

you can't just walk into a Great Clips any more you have to book online

if you don't when you get there your told "will be 25-30 min wait" so , you move on to the next one, get the same talk. Finally , you just go to Walmart

Everybody is so stressed and exhausted no wonder the world is going to

**** in a hand basket.

[Cakers3]

I am not sure if some of the calls are regarding Medicare or solicitation for campaign donations.  No landline-just cell phones.

If we are at our phones and we do not recognize the #, we just decline and later block the number.   So far, so good.

I did receive a text for a political candidate-addressed to me as "Huy Thong"  lol.  I blocked it as spam.

I have seen Joe Namath on TV again and one with JJ Walker but the commercials do not seem to be flooding as they were in the past.

[SharkE]

Give 'em time or you don't watch TV that much..

Camp leJune is now coming in spam junk mail. Not just TV

[reiki604]

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@Porcelain wrote:

Don't worry. If all goes according to plan, pretty soon you won't hear about Medicare at all anymore.

I'm sure everyone will enjoy not having all this red tape to complain about anymore.

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Exactly, and we won't have to worry about SS raises either because it's all going to go away into the sunset.