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Thursday, July 19, 2007
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Yes please... let's put the government in charge of taking more of our money.  I'm sure they'll get it right:

For the past year and half, Betty Ives has watched her Social Security checks shrink as the government deducts premiums for prescription drug coverage she is not receiving. Ives estimates she is out more than $1,000, and has been unable to get anyone to solve her problem.
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Ives is one of about 138,000 seniors nationwide who are stuck in bureaucratic gridlock as Medicare Part D premiums are erroneously deducted from their Social Security checks. An additional 141,000 owe money, and can't get the money to be deducted from their checks.
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"I called Medicare. I called Social Security. I called everybody," said 78-year-old Peter Stotzheim of Fond du Lac, who said he and his wife, Frances, are owed more than $1,000 in wrongfully deducted premiums. "They said they would get back to us and they never got back to us."

As I've said before, insurance companies have one major incentive to get it right.  If they don't, then they will lose their customers.  Government agencies have no incentives to get it right.  If they get it wrong, they can keep taking your money by law, and if you refuse, they can send the police after you.

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Thursday, July 19, 2007 12:59:08 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
no. insurance companies have no incentive to "get it right" because they consistently get it wrong and screw us all in court with a string of lawyers.

robert
Thursday, July 19, 2007 1:01:55 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
Try suing the government some day. Usually your case will be simply thrown out of court. At least against an insurance company you get to have your case heard. At worst, you can take your business elsewhere. When its the government and you get screwed, you can't even do that.
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