Re: Part D Prescription Drug Plans: Which to Recommend? Which to Avoid?
Hi all, thanks for your suggestions. In the end I used the personalized medicare.gov site individually for myself and my wife, only to discover that the two of us were better off with different plans--wholly unexpected. I enrolled us in the two different plans for 2008 and are pleased to be leaving the horror of a company we were with in 2007. We just hope the two new plans work better than the old one.
Along the way, after I had done a ton of research, I visited the Office for the Aging for some help with this, only to find that the volunteer knew less than I did at that point. She explained that the people who come to her are primarily elderly people who have no understanding of how the plans work, have no access to computers, are overwhelmed in general, are sometimes already cutting their pills into quarters to 'stretch' how long their prescriptions will last, and at worst sometimes have to make the choice between heating and eating. I told her that if we lived closer to their offices and we weren't constantly traveling, I'd be volunteering there!
For those of us who have access to the Internet and know how to do research and seek information, it's sort of manageable. But for so many who aren't savvy and don't have access to these kinds of data, this Part D plan, according to the volunteer, has been nothing but a nightmare and a boondoggle that's great for the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. Sad....
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