Cunning Plan

[akirlu]

Today is the last day for senior citizens to sign up for the new "drug benefit" plan if they want it, and so NPR is doing a piece on it, and I hear, for the first time in my recollection, this fascinating little facty nugget: the only way you can do a full benefits comparison between the available plans is via the internet. Let me repeat that. This is a program that's aimed at seniors. And the only way they can fully inform themselves is via a technology that, statistically, they are the least likely age cohort to be conversant with? Apparently they could also phone up a helpline and someone at the other end could get online and do the research *for* them, but other than that, too bad, so sad folks.

Who thinks this shit up?

Comments

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

More likely:

4. People who want to make it as difficult as possible to make such comparisons, in order to continue driving down public expenditure, because they are fundamentally selfish.