New Medicare Podcasts in English and Spanish

Get your ipods ready for great listening!
CHA has just posted our first 2 Medicare Podcasts available in English and Spanish. These are brief recordings (of David in English and Jasmine in Spanish) of

1)      an overview of Medicare, covering:

  • what Medicare is and its 4 parts (Medicare Parts A-D)
  • programs for people with low-income; and
  • where to get help with Medicare questions

2)       an overview of Medicare Fall Enrollment, describing the annual election period (November 15- December 31) and tips on what to consider when making a change in one’s Medicare coverage.

Please help us spread the word to your clients and their families to use this new helpful resource. Also, if you have any feedback on these, let me know. These two are the first of several to come.

Also, if you like using RSS feeds – CHA now has one. You can sign up for our RSS feed on the left-hand side of our website and have all our updated news articles, resources, issue briefs, fact sheets, etc. that we post automatically downloaded to you. If you haven’t used RSS feeds, here are a couple helpful links to articles on RSS feeds, how to use them, and why they’re useful…

http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/index.html

Karen Joy Fletcher

Our blogger Karen Joy Fletcher is CHA’s Communications Director. With a Masters in Public Health from UC Berkeley, she is the online “public face” of the organization, provides technical expertise, writing and research on Medicare and other health care issues. She is responsible for digital content creation, management of CHA’s editorial calendar, and managing all aspects of CHA’s social media presence. She loves being a “communicator” and enjoys networking and collaborating with the passionate people and agencies in the health advocacy field. See her current articles.