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Hi, and welcome to The Longview. I'm Christine Ben's Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning for Morningstar.

And I'm Amy Arna, portfolio strategist for Morningstar.

Our guest on the podcast today is Phil Muller.

He's the primary author of the Get What's Yours series of Consumer Guidebooks, including

a newly revised edition of Get What's Yours for Medicare, maximize your

coverage, minimize your costs. In addition, the series includes Get What's Yours,

the revised secrets to maxing out your Social Security, and Get What's Yours for health care,

how to get the best care at the right price Ask Phil Medicare column for the PBS NewsHour website

Making Sense, reported on aging, health care, and retirement for Money magazine, and wrote the best

life feature on aging and retirement for U.S. News and World Report. He began his career as a newspaper

business reporter and editor and has worked for the Baltimore Sun,

the Charlotte Observer, the Chicago Sun Times, the Hartford Business Journal, and the Louisville

Courier Journal. He later founded the Insure.com Consumer website and also worked as a communications

executive for a large insurance company. Phil, welcome to the Longview.

Thank you.

We wanted to have you on the podcast for a while,

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