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'Privatized' Medicare Dupes Elderly: Audits

Providers accused of cutting coverage, ignoring complaints

By Wesley Oliver,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 7, 2007 8:18 PM CDT

(Newser) – Dems are likely loading political ammo after audits show that Medicare providers have cut thousands from coverage and snubbed those who complain. What's more, HIV/AIDS patients have been booted, standards flouted and phones left ringing. Dems have long opposed efforts to "privatize Medicare,"...   Read full story »

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