Your Uncle Jim will turn age 65 in three months. He is self-employed and has owned his own homebuilding business for the past forty years. He has purchased his own health insurance plan through an independent agent for more than twenty years. Now that he will be eligible for Medicare, he wants to know more about the program. He saw a commercial about Medicare on TV and it suggested to the viewers that they visitwww.medicare.gov.

John went to the Medicare website, but there was so much information and unfamiliar terminology that he became frustrated and quit. He asked a few of his friends who were on Medicare how they chose their plans, and they said they just signed up for the "simple plan" rather than choosing something else that "might not be quite right."

Your mother told your Uncle Jim that you were in a health-related major at the university, so he called you to ask for some advice.

Prepare a "Medicare Choices for Uncle Jim" grid. Your grid should be detailed and include the following: cost, deductible(s), co-payment(s), examples of covered services, and any other details you think are important.It is also important that youensure the grid is easy for Uncle Jim to understand. In addition, provide your uncle with a list of helpful (and easy to understand) websites or other services that he may want to use to help him make his decision.