Rampant confusion about Medicare is bad for your health and costing you money. Experts help make sense of coverage and fees

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Since it’s Medicare Open Enrollment season, you’re likely seeing a host of TV commercials for private insurers’ Medicare Advantage plans and mailers to enroll in them and in Medicare Part D prescription drug plans. So, you might think people 65 and older would be especially sharp about all things Medicare.

Wrong.