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Check out the Medicare Part D Monitoring Project, especially if you've experienced the trauma first-hand. Excerpts from people who've submitted their stories:
“I enrolled on the morning of December 23. I have yet to get a member identification number. My Part D plan, Medicare and the pharmacy show no evidence of my enrollment. I have been on the phone with my Part D plan a total of five hours one day and two hours the next. My plan told me that they’re‛backed up.’"
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“I have a client who is disabled and has both Medicare and Medicaid. She was auto-enrolled in a Part D plan, but that plan did not cover all of her prescriptions. She then enrolled in another plan that did cover her prescriptions. ... In January she went to pharmacy three times and was denied her prescriptions. She was given the choice of paying for medicines (remember this person is so poor she’s on Medicaid) at the retail price or leaving without medication. She left without her medicine.”
