what is national medicare education week? national medicare education week is actually a week that we dedicate to teaching medicare beneficiaries, baby boomers, senior citizens, and their families and caregivers learn more about how medicare works. all right, and when is that week? it starts september 15th, which is exactly one month before the start of the medicare open enrollment period. definitely. let's talk about why unitedhealthcare decided to create national medicare education week. we decided to create national medicare education week because we surveyed people and found that medicare is confusing to all of us. about one in five medicare beneficiaries say that they find it confusing. and about 70% of beneficiaries say that their understanding of the program is fair or poor. right, it is confusing. you guys are offering a great service. thank you so much for doing that. i'm going to tell people actually how they can take here. to learn more about your medicare options, visit medicaremadeclear.com. unitedhealthcare will

it is confusing and so this is why we have established national medicare education week. so we're coming up to it, but our biggest event is tomorrow in milwaukee. the goal being if you are on medicare if you're a biby boomer getting ready to turn 65 or a caregiver or family member here's an opportunity brush up on your medicare skills, get your questions answered because, 30 days from now begins the medicare open enrollment period where you can take action. >> why did united healthcare create national medicare education week. and urgent? >> as you noted at the beginning there, 70% of older adults we asked said wow i don't understand this as people are approaching 65 they go help. this is confusing i don't understand it. this alphabet soup, abcd, what do i do? that's why we stepped this. we can actually make it reasonably simple, so that you can make a good decision as an informed consumer. as an older adult your healthcare coverage one of the most important things going on big deal. that's why you want to make sure you have a good plan. the one that meets your needs. >> so

it's "national medicare education week." united healtcare representatives will speak one- on-one with customers, their fami caregivers at 3 p-m today. walgreens will also be offering pneumonia or flu vaccinations at the event. if you can't make it today, another event is happening at 9 tomorrow morning at the siena community center. there will be a fitness demonstration at friday's event. the medicare open enrollment period starts october 15th. little girl, big mission. "and what did you put in there? some toys from the storage room." the important drove her barbie car down the road to help her neighbors. ((music)) check out this massive snake that was caught jim dunlap: too many nevada police officers have been killed y for criminals and the dangerously mentally ill to buy guns. they get them at gun shows or online from strangers, no questions asked. so here's something we can do to honor the fallen: close the background check loophole. that will help prevent future cop killings. it works. in states that have closed the loo

if you go online, to slick national medicare education week, why was this created? >> well, we created that, there has been a lot of confusion about the medicare program. it's a great program but there is a lot of components to it. we've done surveys of those that are eligible fo one in five find the program confusing. and about 40% of them say their understanding is fair or poor. >> wow. >> and so those aging into medicare actually their understanding is even worse. 70% say that their understanding of the program is fair or poor. >> wow. so baby boomer the term i guess considers -- the group of people that were born after world war ii. >> right. >> big influx, because war is and that's in -- we have the big influx of people that are entering now. to have this week be a month before open enrollment it seems by the time it's ending is when people are starting to realize what's going on. but do it a month ahead of time gets them ready to go. >> we want them to be prepared and educated. there are over 56 million medicare eligibles today and over 10,000 baby boomers agi