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Article: Events aim to clarify Medicare maze.
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- The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Byline: Megan Cooley
Dec. 1--Call him the Dr. Phil of Medicare.
Andrew Tartella, an outreach and education coordinator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, gave a no-bull presentation on Part D, the new prescription drug benefit, to two dozen seniors in northeast Spokane Wednesday.
But don't call it a "benefit" around him. That implies that you don't have to pay for it.
"Is there anything free about Medicare?" he asked.
No, the audience answered.
Tartella is part of a team traveling through the Northwest on a bus wrapped in the Medicare logo. They're helping seniors and disabled people -- including ...