The dizzying array of Medicare Part D plans is confusing to anyone, but especially to our seniors or disabled who cannot ferret out the differences in the plans. They are particularly susceptible to phone calls from kind, concerned individuals who want to make sure the Part D beneficiary is “saving all the money” he or she can.
U.S. House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Pete Stark ( D-Calif.) is calling for more consumer protections in Medicare Part D. He said the private insurance companies that administer Part D prescription drug benefits are taking advantage of the number of coverage options “to bamboozle seniors.”
Even when seniors settle on a plan that may not be their best choice, they stay with it out of inertia and fear of trying something new—even when the medicine their doctor prescribes is not permitted by the Part D plan.
How to protect our seniors and disabled? Congressman Stark says regulations are called for to bring some order to the tangled mess of Part D. What would you suggest to help bring order to Medicare Part D?
