Medicare Plan Deadline (WTVY-TV 4)
In less than two weeks, Medicare recipients need to register for a new prescription coverage plan. Those who wait until after the deadline will have to pay a penalty, although this does not apply to everyone.

Problems With Medicare Drug Information (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal investigator posing as senior citizens found that Medicare's operators routinely failed to give callers accurate and complete information about the government's new drug benefit, prompting Democratic critics of the Bush administration program to again request an extension of an approaching enrollment deadline. The investigators said that about one-third of their calls

Medicare Hotline Fails One-Third of Time on U.S. Drug Plan (Bloomberg.com)
May 3 (Bloomberg) -- Medicare's telephone hotline for a new federal drug subsidy gave wrong, incomplete or inappropriate answers or lost callers in one in three cases, a U.S. government report said today.