Medicare says it won’t help seniors overcharged by prescription program

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Source: McClatchy

Medicare says it won’t help seniors overcharged by prescription program
BY DAVID GOLDSTEIN • MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS • APRIL 22, 2009


WASHINGTON — If you’ve been overcharged by Medicare’s prescription drug program, don’t count on getting your money back any time soon, if at all.

And don’t count on Medicare to help you, either.

The government-run elderly health care program appears to have washed its hands of any responsibility for mistakes that have cost subscribers and taxpayers several billion dollars.

That was the message contained in Medicare’s response this week to questions about problems with the prescription drug program posed earlier this year by Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.

“I was shocked at this answer because it basically said, ‘Tough. We’re not worried about them (seniors),’” McCaskill said at a Senate hearing today.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20090422/NEWS15/90422111

[SheilaT]

1. Ooooh. Big mistake. Don't piss off

Claire McCaskill.

I really think she stands a decent chance at being our first woman President.

[TheDebbieDee]

3. Claire still hasn't convinced me that she's not a DINO............

I like her but I have my reservations.

[NV Whino]

2. Oooo, big mistake

Don't piss off the seniors.

[DCKit]

4. Yes they will. They just don't know it yet. K&R n/t

[madrchsod]

5. there`s tens of millions of us that won`t forget...

there`s tens of millions of us that will demand medicare work for us not the drug companies and their providers.
step one--no more donut holes

[Better Believe It]

6. Don't worry. President Obama will fix this as soon as he finds out about it.

He has the power!

He's the President.

[jody]

7. Obama just found out about it. n/t