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Your post is not clear.

Yes you avoid the penalty. I don't know if you are subject to the regular enrollment period or not in your situation. I would guess you'd be an exception though but you should research that. The regular situation is there is a three month enrollment period. If an expat signed up for B just after that date they wouldn't be able to enroll until a year later adding up to a potential 15 month delay. However yes expats can enroll during any open enrollment period including while living abroad. Correct no US address needed for A or B.

Oh. Cold and expensive. That said Buffalo may be the boom city of the climate change future.

Thanks for the reply but I would still be concerned using that site as a settled expat living in Thailand when this text from that site is very clear that their products are NOT for us. You seem to be saying to just ignore this warning. 1.This COVID-19 Insurance Policy for Thailand Inbound Travellers during the COVID-19 pandemic is intended for foreigners who wish to apply for COE or Thailand Pass, not for foreigners and Thai nationals who currently live in Thailand.

Hmm. So are you saying expats just can't buy that before they travel from Thailand but can buy it while on their trip outside Thailand? So if an expat buys a 30 day policy that way and reenters on an annual extension reentry permit will immigration stamp in for only 30 days or until the expiration of the annual extension?

Its my opinion that you should if nothing else to avoid a potential 15 month delay for B. What are those four states?

I was speaking to actual expats. If you're not a real expat or you're fraudently claiming that you're not I was NOT addressing that. If you're living abroad you can ONLY enroll in A and B. That is FACT. I never said you can actually use Medicare while living abroad! You can't! I recently used Manila FBU to sign up for Initial Enrollment Period part B. I was already automatically enrolled in A at 65 because of an early social security claim. If social security knows you live abroad they will not automatically enroll you in B. I was pessimistic but it turned out Manila FBU processed my B application very quickly and it did take effect. To add oddly enrollment in Medicare A and B is done through Social Security not Medicare.

But useless for expats. 1.This COVID-19 Insurance Policy for Thailand Inbound Travellers during the COVID-19 pandemic is intended for foreigners who wish to apply for COE or Thailand Pass, not for foreigners and Thai nationals who currently live in Thailand.

I don't follow your logic at all! If you repatriate you will be in a better situation if you're already in B regardless. Are you getting that it can potentially take as long as 15 months to get on B upon repatriation?

Guam is a U.S. territory. The Philippines currently is not.

Use your imagination. I refuse to engage at the above level.

A big increase for 2022 from 148 to. 172. https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-announces-2022-medicare-part-b-premiums

Again it can take as long as FIFTEEN MONTHS to get enrolled in B upon repatriation.

You can't enroll in Advantage unless you're enrolled in B.

I don't plan it either but it's not hard to imagine. "Stuff" happens I reckon there are many American expats in the world repatriating every day that didn't plan it.

Extremely. Plus of course the part B fee goes up every year anyway without the penalties. Wait long enough and it could wipe out a lower level social security check.

During the IEP Initial Enrollment Period at your 65th birthday you have about seven months to enroll in B surrounding that date. Cost of living same as Thailand? No way that's true on rentals.

Yes and its cumulative. Example. Original year. 170 Penalty year one. 187 Penalty year two based on 187 not 170. Etcetera.

Nope. Its about percentages. https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/ncvs-lgbt-violence-press-release/ LGBT people nearly four times more likely than non-LGBT people to be victims of violent crime

Can't blame them for following the law. The law should be changed.

If they're so powerful why are they murdered so often? https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiewareham/2021/11/11/375-transgender-people-murdered-in-2021-deadliest-year-since-records-began/?sh=4ba33219321c

You're forgetting the worse part of not taking B. It can take as long as 15 months to get enrolled in it upon repatriation. Thats what convinced me to pay for it more than penalties.

Hmm. I just signed up for Medicare B during the initial enrollment period to avoid a later penalty. Because I had a current early social security claim I was automatically enrolled in the free part A. If you're living abroad your ONLY options are A and B. If you're living abroad and claim you're living in the US that is definitely fraud. Every part other than A and B including advantage are based on zip code. Expats don't have a US zip code. You can enroll in A or A and B as an expat by emailing the FBU in the US embassy in Manila. The US embassy in Thailand can't help. If repatriate there are ways to enroll in other parts but there are specific rules about that. If you opt out of B it can take as long as 15 months to get enrolled in that upon repatriation on top of the severe penalties.

OMG.

Whatever.s ... https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/24/pete-buttigieg-presidential-buzz-white-house-523281 My point is that specific individuals are only individuals. Nobody represents entire identity groups.