Medicare Part B Premiums for 2026
The standard Medicare Part B premium for 2026 is $202.90 per month. The annual deductible is $283, which you must pay before Medicare begins covering its share of your outpatient services. After meeting the deductible, you typically pay 20 percent of the Medicare-approved amount for covered services. Not everyone pays the same premium. Medicare uses […]
My Husband Was Kicked Out of Hospice for Dying Too Slowly
“No more operations,” he said. It was mid-January 2026, and my then-73-year-old husband, Mike Salmon, had just started bouncing back from a three-month ordeal of three operations related to aortic aneurysms, sepsis, and a terrifying descent into delirium tied to a stay in the intensive care unit. Now, after another potentially fatal aortic aneurysm and […]