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• Vicki Gottlich On Bush Administration's Confusing Medicare Handbook - "Medicare Will Revise Guide To New Benefits For 2006", Robert Pear, The New York Times, May 22, 2005 (The quote also appeared in "Even Medicare Officials Find Handbook Confusing", Deseret News, May 22, 2005)

• Judith Stein On Changes To The Medicare Appeals Process - "Medicare Change Will Limit Access To Claim Hearing", Robert Pear, The New York Times, April 24, 2005
  To read a beneficiary response to the article above, click HERE.

• Judith Stein On Medicare Drug Benefit For Low-Income Beneficiaries - "Get Ready: Medicare Drug Plan's To Do List", Robert Pear, The New York Times, April 20, 2005

• Commentary By Attorney Mary T. Berthelot On Hospice - "Compassion To The Very End", Hartford Courant, April 2, 2005

• Vicki Gottlich On Prescription Drug Low-Income Subsidy - "Medicare Applications Sent To Low-Income Americans", Robert Pear, The New York Times, March 25, 2005

• Vicki Gottlich On Private Plans In Medicare - "'Another Blow' To Elderly", Tami Luhby, Newsday, March 25, 2005

• Center Voices Opinion On Subsidy Application Process - "Group Of Seniors To Test Application For New Drug Aid", Susan Jaffe, The Plain Dealer, Monday, March 21, 2005

• Toby Edelman On Nursing Home Oversight - "Nursing Homes' Silent Pain", Kathryn Wellin, Charlotte Observer, March 14, 2005

• Judith Stein On The Medicare Prescription Drug Plan - "Seniors Sort Through Confusion of Medicare Drug Plans", Rebecca Vesely, Oakland Tribune, March 13, 2005

• Toby Edelman On Disputes With Nursing Homes -  "Who's Watching Mom?", Kay Harvey, Pioneer Press, February 27, 2005

• Judith Stein On The Success Of Traditional Medicare - "Medicare, Medicaid Challenge Looming: Fixing Social Security Woes Will Seem Easy In Comparison With Health Insurance Programs", Michael Hill, Baltimore Sun, February 13, 2005

• Judith Stein On Complexity Of Medicare Part D And The "Doughnut Hole" - "Rx for Savings", Rebecca Vesely, San Mateo County Times, February 12, 2005

• Vicki Gottlich On The Administration's Reform Promises - "Medicare, Not Social Security, May Require Most Reform: Health-Care Entitlement's Problems Are Worse - And Will Arise Sooner", Miles Benson, The Star Ledger,  January 25, 2005

• Toby Edelman On Preventable Nursing Home Deaths - "Some Nursing Home Deaths Preventable", Rick Linsk, Pioneer Press, January 23, 2005

• Judith Stein Quoted On Never-Ceasing Complexities Of The Medicare Prescription Drug Plan - "New Medicare Rules On Drugs Balance Access Against Costs", Robert Pear, The New York Times, January 22, 2005

• Patricia Nemore Quoted On Medicare Prescription Drug Plan - "Medicare Prescription Plan May Not Be Easy To Swallow", Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Los Angeles Times, and Reprinted in The San Francisco Chronicle and The Deseret News, January 22, 2005

• Gill Deford And Vicki Gottlich Cite CMS's Poor Practices - "Medicare Agency Must Be Fair, Accurate With Citizens", Gill Deford and Vicki Gottlich, Seattlepi.com, January 11, 2005

• Center For Medicare Advocacy Critical Of Nursing Home Guide - "Guide measures Nursing Homes In Fifteen Categories", Tampa Tribune, January 4, 2005

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