LEMON DROP | Making Medicare Simple with Chapter CEO Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz

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🗓️ 1 November 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Don sits down with Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz, Co-Founder and CEO of Chapter, a company dedicated to helping Americans make sense of one of the country’s most complicated systems...Medicare. They discuss how Chapter’s innovative platform is simplifying the process, empowering people to find the coverage that’s right for them, and making healthcare decisions less confusing and more transparent. For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 212-931-0855 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/don DISCLAIMER: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan's contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don't directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. Average potential savings are based on realized premium, co-pay, and out of pocket savings estimates self-reported by consumers that worked with Chapter Advisory LLC to enroll in a Medicare Supplement, Medicare Advantage, and/or Part D Prescription Drug Plan. The average is limited to consumers that chose to self-report. Savings information is subject to periodic updates and corrections. There is no guarantee of savings and any savings may vary by policy type, state, or other factors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Look, there's a lot going on in the country right now, especially with the government shutdown and everything going on around health care.
0:22.4	Medicare has become a big talking point. And finally, there's a company that wants to solve that issue, and it is called
0:27.9	Chapter. And the CEO of Chapter, Kobe Blumenfeld, joins us now. Thanks for joining.
0:32.6	Thanks for having me. How are you? I'm doing well. This is the right time people need
0:36.8	your company.
0:38.0	So how did you start this company?
0:39.8	It's called Chapter.
0:40.8	Chapter.
0:41.8	How did you start it?
0:42.8	Or what?
0:43.8	I started the company about six years ago after seeing my parents struggle with the Medicare
0:49.3	process.
0:50.3	They had been working with a local Medicare broker and received terrible advice. Unfortunately, that had pretty significant consequences.
0:57.7	My mom now has late enrollment penalties
1:00.3	that she has to pay in perpetuity for the rest of her life.
1:03.4	And they were paying a couple hundred dollars per month
1:06.1	more than they needed to.
1:08.0	And I didn't come from a healthcare background.
1:09.6	I didn't come from a Medicare background. I didn't come from a Medicare
1:11.1	background, but I just thought that the way that people deal with Medicare really makes no
1:17.2	sense. And it is really unfortunate because people are paying Medicare payroll taxes their entire
1:21.8	lives. Like we're paying into the system. It's not even a welfare program. It's a program we've all
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