Carol Kelly

Did you get a new one today printed every language known to mankind? I did and it changed my number to something indecipherable and also gave me a headache. Why is Medicare doing this. If you’re on Medicare, shouldn’t you be able to read @nd speak English? Shouldn’t you be a citizen who has worked for many years paying into this Medicare program? If someone has an explanation, please send it. Otherwise just ignore me.

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

I have had my new card for nearly a month and the only thing I see different is the number which is no longer my Social Security number. Yep, I have been paying on Medicare since its inception and will never manage to get away from that. I do wonder how many leaners know that even we octogenarians are still paying from our Social Security money.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Good grief, Carol, you must be racist if you object to your box of Cheerios being multilingual and you are required to take your shoes off when you fly. I've got my new card and didn't even look at it that well. Now I don't know if I want to.

Liberty Tree

Why are ballots in Spanish?

rumitoid

Never even looked at my card when I got it, just stuck it in my wallet. No differences that I can see. Maybe Breitbart or Infowars sent you that card.

Comment Loc: California

[quote=oldroy]I have had my new card for nearly a month and the only thing I see different is the number which is no longer my Social Security number. Yep, I have been paying on Medicare since its inception and will never manage to get away from that. I do wonder how many leaners know that even we octogenarians are still paying from our Social Security money.[/quote

OR, I don't understand octogenarians; outside my pay grade.

Comment Loc: California

[quote=Comment][quote=oldroy]I have had my new card for nearly a month and the only thing I see different is the number which is no longer my Social Security number. Yep, I have been paying on Medicare since its inception and will never manage to get away from that. I do wonder how many leaners know that even we octogenarians are still paying from our Social Security money.[/quote

OR, I don't understand octogenarians; outside my pay grade. [/quote]

I looked it up. Smart guy!

Carol Kelly

So right

Carol Kelly

Probably not!

Carol Kelly

Maybe you should look at it with your eyes open.

Carol Kelly

Excellent question. I’m sick of seeing everything written in Spanish. Shouldn’t you learn the language if you’re going to live off a new country? But the Democrats
understand that the illegal can’t read the ballots in English.

Carol Kelly

Fall back tonight!

Betta

Previous medicare cards had your social security number on them which makes you ripe for ID theft. If your card was lost or stolen, the thief has all he needs to destroy your credit and possibly your life. Then you'd eventually have folks knocking on your door or calling your phone looking for their money for items you didn't buy.

I'm not on medicare but, some years back there was a knock on my door. I don't answer if I'm not expecting anyone. Whoever it was left a tag on the door knob. Someone bought a car using my information and didn't pay for it. I went straight to the police station with it. Identity theft, they said. They called the number on the card and instructed that person to not contact me again. Later, I received notice that someone had gotten two Amscot loans several months apart after not paying the first one off. Again, using my information. I called them. Told them I had no loans with them and asked if they even bother to verify information on the loan application. Told them it looks like an inside job to me that they give another loan to the same person when they didn't pay off the first one. Crickets. My address and phone number at that time I'd had for years. Never heard any more from them.

The change on the medicare cards is for your safety.

Betta

When I use Uber, sometimes a driver arrives who does not speak English. If he can't speak it he can't read the road signs either. This tells me he is here illegally using ID he bought from someone. When applying to drive for Uber one never has to walk into an office. All is done online. They really don't know who they're hiring. I could be Joe Blow from Kocomo, a mass murdering rapist, uploading any ID I desire and get the job. That's why when I get in an Uber car, whether man or woman, I sit in the back.

English needs to be made the universal language here. For some reason it is not. I'd like to see this issue on a ballot. This is America. Nothing should be in any other language but English.

I read an article about an American writer in France. It was time to renew his visa. Guess what? All legal documents are in French, just as it should be. He had to get someone to help him fill it out. You'd think being in France he would bother to learn the language.

bilordinary Loc: SW Washington

They took the SSN off and gave us a new unique number. I like having my SSN more private, but another number to identify us?