I help senior citizens to correct bill errors to save money and protect their identities. On January 5, 2015, I helped a client phone the Social Security Inspector General’s Fraud Hotline. The recording told us that there would be a 32 minute wait before we could talk to anyone. Such a delay is a roadblock that discourages reports of fraud.

On January 5, 2015, a couple came to my office for help. They were from DeMotte, Indiana. The woman was very upset because she just got a letter that day that her Medicare supplement insurance policy was cancelled for non-payment when she knew that she had paid the policy premium.

The medical bill was for $972 for services rendered on September 5, 2014. When I phoned the client’s insurance company, it reported that it never received such a claim from Medicare. So, I wrote a letter asking the billing firm to send the essential information about the claim directly to our client’s insurance company. My letter was sent to the addresses given to me from the bill and when I phoned to confirm another address of the billing party.

On “The View” TV program on December 17, 2014, Whoopi Goldberg said that our prayers go to the families in Pakistan who lost their children and others in the attack on a school in Pakistan by the Taliban. She added that Americans who want to support or help the Taliban or ISIS should realize that those groups support such acts of terror. Whoopi ended the comment by telling the audience that people in the U.S. who like the Taliban or ISIS should leave because we don’t need them in this country.

In early December 2014, a client sent me a copy of a letter from a federal agency. The letter explained that the client would get a check for $527 from the federal government in about 45 days. Then, the government would get its money from the hospital in Illinois that ignored Medicare rules and forced our client to pay $527 to avoid harm to his credit or being sued.

On December 10, 2014, I received a letter from clients in Lowell, Indiana. The clients wanted to know why they received an ambulance bill despite the fact that each of them was covered by Medicare and had bought a Medicare supplement insurance policy through this agency. The ambulance bill was for $721.16.

The recent vote in the U.S. Senate is not the only sign that the Democratic Party is now against American workers. In that vote, almost all the Democrats in the Senate voted against building an oil pipeline that would create thousands of good paying jobs for American workers which in turn would help American families and American communities.

The ineptitude of the VA and Medicare results in millions of senior citizen veterans being forced to pay over a thousand dollars in annual deductibles TWICE in a year.

If your congressman or senator voted for the Affordable Health Care Act (“Obamacare”), then you should understand this. A vote for “Obamacare” was a vote to cut funding of Medicare by $716 billion dollars. That is the figure given in a two year study by the Government Accounting Office that was published in July 2012.

On October 6, 2014, a widow came to my office for help with medical bills. The woman is from Portage, Indiana. So far, the bills totaled almost $3,000. Her husband had passed away less than four weeks before our meeting and she was worried because she was getting medical bills regarding services during his last few days alive.