Fortende Health was founded with the mission to make the complex simple when it comes to Medicare healthcare coverage. We get it because we lived it ourselves. In a very important and transitional phase of a person’s life, understanding what options and coverage available to you are extremely important. Fortende Health provides help at the right time Enrolling in Medicare at the standard age of eligibility, 65, can be confusing and burdensome to many applicants. This leads to the most vulnerable seniors forgoing the healthcare coverage they need. We want to help unpack the detailed nuances of all the Medicare parts and dispel any myths to guide you to a perfect solution for your healthcare needs. Making the complex simple We started for Fortende Health to help fellow retirees navigate the mass confusion that we encountered when signing up for Medicare when we turned 65. We naïvely anticipated easing into Medicare nirvana – great coverage, simple to understand, and low-cost – nothing could be better! And nothing was further from the truth we encountered. Instead, we were inundated by people selling products we did not understand – phone, direct mail, and internet. And you need to understand, we spent our careers building companies in healthcare. It was simple – we felt hustled and had no one to trust. Medicare sends you a 120 pages manual filled with hundreds of click-throughs and wish you the best of luck. We struggled, managed to sign up, and two years later we were still sorting out the mess that we created with the original sign-up. Along the way we figured out how the system works, what type of coverage we actually needed, including things like spending extended time outside the United States and still getting reasonable medical coverage. And how to save thousands of dollars from the original mess we signed up for.