Folks really need to talk directly with SHINE and directly with The Villages Health Care System before doing anything like changing insurance plans. We did not get a hard sell at all about joining "their" insurance plan - they offered us info about UHC and about the Medicare Advantage Plan but didn't push us to sign up before getting served. We had and still have Basic Medicare (NOT an Advantage plan) and we have Tricare for Life with Express Scripts for drugs. We use TVHC and have for several years now - yes, we have a dedicated primary care doctor (well, we share him with a few others). It is true that TVHC will sometimes have to assign you to a different doctor if it's a rush need and your PC doctor is not available for some reason, but we've never had that problem. It's not a perfect system but we had a couple off-campus doctors before joining TVHC and they weren't perfect either. In short, there is some good information on many topics in this forum but please, please, please go to SHINE and to TVHC and talk, question, and think before you make any changes.
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