Even HHS Secretary Leavitt's parents get it wrong
I’ve remarked on THCB how the man who I regard as the leading medical director working in health benefits in America told me privately that he was completely befuddled by the choices that he faced getting his mother into Part D. Now from the HealthLawProf Blog it appears that “just about everyone is having difficulty figuring out the new Medicare Part D program, including HHS Secretary Leavitt's parents.”
Dixie and Anne Leavitt - parents of Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt - recently were forced to change Medicare plans after learning that the one they chose imperiled their retiree medical coverage. The elder Leavitts joined the program last fall with some fanfare and help from their son. Anne Leavitt, 73, was quoted in The Salt Lake Tribune touting the online enrollment as "smooth," and a guaranteed money-saver…. Secretary Leavitt's office confirmed that the couple signed up for another Medicare plan through their insurer, Utah's Public Employee Health Plan.
Well poor Leavitt was just the Governor of Utah when the botch-job known as MMA was passed, so I guess it’s all Tommy Thompson’s fault. Although as he left he said that what he really wanted was government price controls (sorry I mean “the ability to negotiate”).
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