He Kept His Spouse’s Employer Plan Past 65. Medicare Called It a Gap — and Charged Him for Life.
A 68-year-old stays on his wife’s employer health plan after turning 65 because she is still working, and he assumes that coverage lets him delay Medicare Part B. Three years later, when she retires…
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