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Lani · 03-08-2010, 01:53 PM

Just to consider--As I understand it, you only qualify for Medicare TWO YEARS
after Medicare finds you disabled--and Medicare uses different criteria than others--you cannot be able to do ANY job--and they take a long time and sometimes several appeals to do so, as I understand it. I think there may be a clause that if you are Stage IV you don't have to go through as long a process to be considered disabled, but there still is the TWO YEAR wait thereafter before you can qualify for Medicare assistance itself!

Please correct me if I am wrong in any of this--I wish I were, but I am afraid I am not!

03-08-2010, 01:53 PM	#3
Lani Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4,778	Re: Insurance questions Just to consider--As I understand it, you only qualify for Medicare TWO YEARS after Medicare finds you disabled--and Medicare uses different criteria than others--you cannot be able to do ANY job--and they take a long time and sometimes several appeals to do so, as I understand it. I think there may be a clause that if you are Stage IV you don't have to go through as long a process to be considered disabled, but there still is the TWO YEAR wait thereafter before you can qualify for Medicare assistance itself! Please correct me if I am wrong in any of this--I wish I were, but I am afraid I am not!