SPOTLIGHT: New rules would limit Medicare marketing

I was glad to hear that the government was stepping in to help our seniors. It sickens me each & everytime that I see a medicare replacement insurance company come in to pressure the elderly into switching insurance companies & giving up their medicare benefits, offering that they will get additional $$ in their monthly SS benefit. The money is coming from somewhere. The somewhere is the fact that they are contracting for substandard care or limiting where they must go to have services like bloodwork or xrays covered under their plan.Many of these seniors have a hard enough time getting transportation to the doctor's office so many times chose one that was close to where they live but with replacements many times have to travel farther for care.
It is not uncommon for these replacement companies to go door to door or use friends names of new members to solicit new business.