65th Birthday & Medicare Hats

Turning 65 comes with its own piece of mail. The Initial Enrollment Period runs seven months, from three months before the birthday month through three months after, and the insurance industry knows it: Medicare mailers are sold as a product, and one mailer vendor quotes AARP saying about 10,000 people turn 65 every day. Forum posters describe the result as an overwhelming daily pile of mail from AARP, Medicare and every insurance company imaginable. These hats are for the person at the other end of that pile. SIXTY-FIVE and MEDICARE ELIGIBLE are the plain badges. MEDICARE HERE I COME is a phrase already sold on 65th-birthday tees, so it gets its own hat. THE GOVERNMENT SENT ME A MEDICARE CARD FOR MY BIRTHDAY borrows a joke from people who note that the card arrives months before the birthday, as if you did not already know. NO, I DON'T WANT A SUPPLEMENT PLAN, I WANT A NAP answers every Medigap offer in the mailbox, and 65TH BIRTHDAY GIFTS: 400 MEDICARE MAILERS is an exaggeration for the joke. 65: MY AGE AND MY SPEED LIMIT adds a road-sign twist, and I WON MEDICARE and NEWLY MEDICARED treat enrollment as a trophy. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. MEDICARE HERE I COME and the supplement-plan nap line each come in two colorways.