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Show 3-year deadline eliminated for medicare insurance any soclnl security office during dur-ing the iflrot throa months of nny year. The medical Insurance In-surance part of Medicare h"ll pay for doctor bills and oilier nu'illcal 8(rvUv. It U funded by Individual ipremlum and general revenues of the Fed-ral Fed-ral government. A representative of tho no-clal no-clal Kivurlty In at IK) Went Center Street, Cedar City, dally except national holidays. Ills hours arc 0 a.m. until 12 noon and 12:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. You may telephone him at: 5S(;8K2; you may call collect If noeexsary. People who don't have tho medical Insurance part of Medicare because they didn't enrol during the first 3 yearn they w.jrc eligible now have a new chance to enroll, according ac-cording to Don Donald-'on, fcx'lal sccurMy district manager man-ager In Trovo. Previously you had to sign Uip In an enrollment iperlod that began within three years after you becam,? eligible for the medical lnsurancc--or within three year after your protection stopped because you cancelled. The 3-year deadline Is eliminated by the new law. These .people now can sign up for medical insurance in-surance in any general enrollment en-rollment iperlod January, February, and March of every year. The basic premium U now 05.80 ipor month. "But," Mr. Donaldson said, "the monthly premium Increases by 10 per cent every 12 month period you ould have been enrolled but were not." Under the new law, disabled people newly eligible for Medicare benefits and almost everyone who reaches age 65 after June l'J73 will automatically be enrolled (frr the medical Insurance part of Medicare unless they say they don't want It. If they do decline the protection pro-tection and later divide they want it, they can enroll at |