Statement By R. M. Hayes, President, Medicare Rights Center, On Choice Of Prescription Drug And Medicare Health Plans …
Once again, all across the country, people with Medicare will face for 2009 a bewildering choice of nearly 50 prescription drug plans and over 40 Medicare health plans, including HMOs, PPOs, and private fee-for-service plans of every variety. It is a Wild West marketplace and older Americans are ripe for exploitation. Bait-and-switch tactics are in full play.