Robert Hayes
Robert Hayes
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Increasingly, the CMS system is looking like FEMA.
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In an ideal world, which is long past in this economy, physicians could sit down and become experts and counsel their patients. That doesn't happen today because there's so much time pressure on every doctor.
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The new Medicare drug benefit is 10 times more complicated than the Medicare drug discount card, ... and 10 times more important.
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If you're managing a chronic illness, it's a real concern if you join a network, only to see your doctors leave later in the year.
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His jobs were to make money, but his career was the band. It was quite a balancing act.
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In my humble opinion, it's the single most convoluted benefit program in American history.
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The Bush Administration's inflation of enrollment numbers disguises the problems that plague this privately-administered benefit. Deception will do nothing to help older and disabled get the medications they so desperately need.
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It's the neediest, oldest, sickest, poorest group of folks,
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There's a thousand different forms of confusion, but almost everyone's confused.
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That sounds better than it is in operation. Medicaid patients frequently have difficulty finding a doctor, so to expect a doctor to put the time and energy into becoming an amateur lawyer is asking a lot.
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The response has been tremendous. People hear it once, and they get up off the couch to buy the album.
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There's so much complexity that in a sense the people confused by the benefit are the ones who are the most knowledgeable on Medicare. And for sure, there will be many people who will be confronted with the complexity and, sadly, they will throw their hands up and give up.
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There's literally hundreds of cases like just this in our office, right now.
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Somewhere along the line, something turned nasty, and I don't know what it was.