Attention AARP, please use the white courtesy clue phone........

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I'm thinking of e-mailing Horn's latest report to AARP. If they could be mobilized, it would be a potent political force. The news on HCFA is simply scandalous (though not unexpected). Healthcare is about to get a huge whack in the head. I hope this will be AARP's hot button that will get their attention. If any of you agree, perhaps we could coordinate a mass e-mailing. Shades of Diane - the Good Witch of the West.

-- RD. ->H (drherr@erols.com), November 27, 1998

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R.D. -- Go for it! Studying earthquake web-sites right now, see LAFD post on Y2K, never know what you'll stumble across or what will trigger better national awareness!

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), November 27, 1998.


This is not the first time HCFA has had a problem with dates... (chuckling to myself). When Medicare became law (7-1-1966) the system used to track entitlement, claims adjudication, etc., used a five (5), yes thats what I said folks 5 position date field for entitlement effective date. Not only was the century not carried, but neither was the decade.

In 1969 changes were made to 'window' the date. In other words if the year was 6,7,8, or 9...it must be in the 60's.

If its 0,1,2,3,4,or 5 it must be in the 70's

1976 rolls around...A big release is planned and implemented (for obvious reasons 1976 would look like 1966 to the system).

Guess who had to work on 7-4-1976...the bi-centinial?

-- MVI (vtoc@aol.com), November 27, 1998.


Healthcare already got screwed up this August - retirees and Medicare receiptants got overcharged 570+ million in co-payments because of a computer programming error related to Y2K. Didn't hear anything before the election about it from AARP though - they wanted to avoid embarressing the Democrats.

-- Robert A. Cook, P.E. (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), November 29, 1998.

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