Although he is old enough for Medicare, the salary deferral has meant he has not paid enough into the system to qualify for benefits.
For others, a separation agreement may be negotiated so that a spouse keeps the other's insurance until he or she is old enough for Medicare.
Our friend had been in the insurance business but carries no health insurance, is retired, is not poor enough for Medicare, and developed cancer.
He did the same with another patient, of whom he said: "She's old but not old enough for Medicare, and she's poor but not poor enough for Medicaid.
So he asked the two budget authors, had they considered the fact that countless state and local government contracts ensure public employees health care until they are old enough for Medicare?
He may be old enough for Medicare, but Jay Leno is still capable of shocking the young generation.
But he is a single childless adult, at age 61 not yet old enough for Medicare, and he has several preexisting conditions.
Banks, who makes too much money to qualify for Medicaid and is not old enough for Medicare, was one of more than 2,000 people who came to RAM's clinic at Malcolm X College, almost in the shadow of Rush University Medical Center 's gleaming new 14-story, $654 million tower that is scheduled to open in January.
If they aren't old enough for Medicare, see if they qualify for Medicaid.
Alan Powers Anchorage, Sept. 27, 2009 To the Editor: It is surely fantasy that we can "save" enough money from Medicare to pay for subsidized health insurance for tens of millions of people without doing permanent damage to Medicare itself.
