Family Overwhelmed By Medicare Paperwork

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services "is so eager to have people enroll in these plans that they're turning a blind eye to abuses," says Deane Beebe of the Medicare Rights Center in New York. "It's the fox guarding the henhouse." "The disease itself is de...

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Published inMcClatchy - Tribune Business News p. 1
Main Author Gentry, Carol
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Tribune Content Agency LLC 17.06.2007
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Cancer
Medicare
National health insurance
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Summary:The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services "is so eager to have people enroll in these plans that they're turning a blind eye to abuses," says Deane Beebe of the Medicare Rights Center in New York. "It's the fox guarding the henhouse." "The disease itself is devastating, a daily mental anguish," [Deborah Orr] said. "Then there's this damn insurance company. It's like, 'AAAHHH!!!'" In Orr's view, Universal isn't malicious. "They're just in way over their heads," she said.