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Errors cost thousands of South Florida residents Medicare coverage (Sun-Sentinel)


Errors cost thousands of South Florida residents Medicare coverage (Sun-Sentinel)
Medicare HMO members, perhaps numbering in the tens of thousands, were mistakenly dropped from their medical coverage when they signed up for the government's new prescription drug plan -- a problem hitting hard in South Florida, officials and advocates say.

Low Enrollment Tests Medicare Drug Plans (Washington Post)
Bush administration's $400 million campaign has only attracted a fraction of the low-income seniors eligible for the new coverage.

Enrollment challenging for Medicare drug plan (San Jose Mercury News)
A $400 million campaign by the Bush administration to enroll low-income seniors in prescription-drug plans that would cost them just a few dollars per prescription has signed up 1.4 million people, a fraction of the 8 million eligible for the new coverage.

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