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MEDICARE CAN’T COVER
YOU ABROAD
I enjoyed your recent article
“A Costly Medicare Mistake
to Avoid” [September]. COMMENTS
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realizing Original Medicare RECENT
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expenses abroad (certain MONEY.COM
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traveling abroad). My wife Right Before Two
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Africa; it paid only for services
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