Medicare scramble (San Mateo County Times)
MEDICARE recipients and those newly eligible to register for the federal health insurance program may have noticed their mailboxes filling with brochures from private health insurance companies and

Enrollees, Beware: Medicare Sign-Up Is Near; So Are Sales Agents (The Tampa Tribune)
At the Acorn Trace apartment complex in Tampa, the elderly and disabled residents are bracing as if for a siege. They've organized patrols to guard the door and quiz strangers. What's the threat? The 2008 enrollment season for Medicare drug and health plans starts Thursday.