I think the health forum is all that's needed.
Just to point out a few things. Creating a new forum topic category is at the option of site staff. In order to enable sub-forum specific searches, when a new forum is created individual threads need to be identified and relocated, going back a number of years, which is a lot of work.
I certainly I wasn't going to do it, but if it was something members wanted, I would mention it to the staff with the poll data.
Turns out members overwhelmingly do not want it. At least so far.
No thanks. If you expand the same logic we'd also have a "When to take Social Security" sub.
Yeah, then you will get no Medicare benefits
Oh! Forgot about those, Ok, I'll try to hang around long enough to spend the kids inheritance.
Yeah, then you will get no Medicare benefits
Oh! Forgot about those, Ok, I'll try to hang around long enough to spend the kids inheritance.
Plus we will then need a separate suicide subforum.....
That would probably have short threads!
That would probably have short threads!
So true!
If I seemed overly critical, I am truly sorry. Apparently I was because Karma bit me in the rear right after I posted. I had to hassle with my phone company and bank, just to continue my autopay as always after getting a new card with everything the same except with a new expiration date. Apparently when I activated the card by phone, and it said happily that it was activated, really it wasn't so I had to do it again online. There's a wasted hour I'll never get back.
While we may not need a new Forum for Medicare, a sticky thread for paying off the mortgage might be helpful. That way when the topic starts in a new thread (every 4 days from my experience), the moderators can just roll it into the sticky and nobody has to re-re-re-re-re-re-state their opinion. The newbies can just start from the top.
………. This an Early retirement group, so Medicare may not be on the curve, but clearly a lot of questions are posted. I still think it is a good idea to have a separate category, after all, Why would you put a Medicare question in a category named health and 'Early Retirement' people that retire early aren't on Medicare. But, I was out voted, it happens.
We do have a FAQ forum with threads on common topics like PPACA and Medicare
Early Retirement FAQs - Early Retirement & Financial Independence Community