Joyce De Monnin

Hi blog readers! It's Heather Heppner with the AARP Illinois Communications Team back with your Tuesday health care post. With the new year upon us, many of you may be planning your 2014 budget - or maybe 2014 is the year you plan to retire. Either way, a new resource from AARP - the Health Care Costs Calculator - may help!

The following is a guest post from AARP Experience Corps staff member Jake Cashman.

Hi blog readers! It's Heather Heppner with the AARP Illinois Communications Team back with your Tuesday health care post. This week, we're focusing on the budget deal approved by the U.S. House on Dec. 12th and how it could impact how Medicare pays doctors. The article was written by Tamara Lytle - original article linked here.

Hi blog readers! It's Heather Heppner with the AARP Illinois Communications Team back with your Tuesday health care blog post. This week, I'm highlighting an event that we have coming up on December 9th. If you're interested in a policy discussion about the future of Medicare, I encourage you to join us!

This past weekend was a tough one for many Illinois families. In what will go down in history as one of the worst storm systems to hit Illinois in decades, many people lost everything. The Governor has declared 13 Illinois counties as "disaster areas" including Champaign, Grundy, LaSalle, Massac, Tazewell, Washington and Woodford, Douglas, Jasper, Pope, Wabash, Wayne and Will counties.

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Hi blog readers! It's Heather Heppner with the AARP Illinois Communications Team back with your Tuesday health care post. This week we're focusing on what are called the "essential benefits" for plans included in the health insurance Marketplaces.

Hi blog readers! This is Heather Heppner with the AARP Illinois Communications Team back with your Tuesday health care law post. This week we'll be going over some key dates for enrollment in the health insurance marketplaces.

Hi blog readers! This is Heather Heppner with the AARP Illinois Communications Team back with your Tuesday health care law post. I'm going to switch gears a little bit this week and talk about Medicare Open Enrollment. With the launch of the new health care marketplaces and Medicare open enrollment happening at the same time, there is a bit of confusion out there. Hopefully this blog post will help clear things up!

Attention Springfield Residents!