Published as Medicare 2026: Choose the Right Plan & Avoid Costly Mistakes. The published title is the book’s name. It is not a recommendation of any Medicare Advantage, Part D, or Supplement product.
By Alan Blackwell. A written way to learn how Medicare is built — eligibility, enrollment windows, and the tradeoffs between Original Medicare, Advantage, Medigap, and Part D — before you sit down with an agent.
This is the opening idea, published here so you can read before you buy. The book continues from this point.
How Medicare is built
Medicare is easier to use once you stop treating it as one product. It is a set of parts, and the parts do not all start on the same day.
Part A is hospital insurance. Part B is medical insurance for doctor and outpatient care. In 2026 the standard Part B premium is $202.90 a month, and the Part B deductible is $283. Higher incomes can pay more. Those figures come from CMS. Confirm them on Medicare.gov before you rely on them.
Part C is Medicare Advantage: a private plan that delivers Medicare benefits, usually inside a network. A Supplement is not Part C. It works with Original Medicare and helps pay some of the costs Parts A and B leave behind. Part D is drug coverage. Original Medicare does not include routine prescriptions.
The first useful question is not “which plan is best.” It is which parts you already have, which window you are in, and which doctors and drugs you need the coverage to fit. The rest of the book takes those questions one at a time. It does not enroll you.
Reviews from readers
Reader reviews are on the Amazon page for Medicare 2026: Choose the Right Plan & Avoid Costly Mistakes. This website does not reprint quotes we cannot source, and it does not invent them.
If the book helped you sort out a window, a doctor list, or a drug question, a review there helps the next person decide whether to read it.
Watch the overview
A short introduction from Alan Blackwell. It does not autoplay and does not enroll you in a plan.
When you are ready to talk
The book is education, not a licensed review of products in your ZIP code, and not a recommendation of any plan. When you want a person, talk with Alan.
