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Show Socio! Security Man Coming Time is growing short for people who have not signed up for the voluntary medical insurance part of Medicare, according to the Grand Junction Junc-tion Social Security office. The general enrollment per-, iod ends on April 1, 1958. People Peo-ple already G5 or older who do not. have medical insurance may enroll through April 1, 168: if they do not enroll by that date, they will have to wait until 1969 for another opportunity op-portunity to do so. and pay a premium that is 10 per cent higher for each full year they could have had the "medical "me-dical insurance, but were not enrolled. The premium for the medi-, cal insurance will be ?4 a' month beginning April 1, 19R8. The government matches the premiums on a dollar for do' lar basis. The medical insurance Hon of medicare helps pw j doctor bills, medical or surgical sur-gical wherever they are furnished, fur-nished, whether in a hospital, in the doctor's office, or in your home. It also helps pay for diagnostic tests, medical sumilies, the services of the rl""tor'; nurse dni"s which cannot be self-administered, and similar services which the doctor would not ordinal'-; ilv include in his bill. Persons with questions can contact Social Security representative rep-resentative Howell Culber't-son, Culber't-son, who will be in Moab at flie Emnlovment Office on March 12, 1968 between 1 and 5 p.m. |