Tell Your Story
The Medicare Rights Center has learned over the years that personal experience can powerfully convey the importance of how health care policy affects human lives.
By sharing real-life stories that illustrate problems in our healthcare system with the press, policymakers and general public, MRC raises awareness about these issues and helps influence change in health policy.
MRC is collecting the stories of people whose experiences reflect flaws in our healthcare system and who are willing to tell them to effect improvement.
MRC respects the confidentiality of everyone who submits a story and asks their permission before giving it to anyone.
If you would like to share your story, please send it via the project link that best describes your health care experience below:
- The Medicare Private Health Plan Monitoring Project captures the experiences of people who have signed up for a Medicare HMO, PPO, PFFS plan, or any of the other types of Medicare Advantage plans. Are you getting the medical care you need? Has your doctor or hospital dropped out of your plan's network? Is it costing you more than you expected? Were you misled into joining a plan? Are you locked-in to a plan that no longer meets your needs? Please tell your private health plan story so we can bring your story to Capitol Hill. Read submitted stories.
- The 24-Month Medicare Waiting Period Project will make people aware that Americans who are deemed disabled and too sick to work must wait at least 24 months to get Medicare. These Americans are often underinsured or without health coverage during this time, which takes a devastating toll upon their health and quality of life. You can read more about this issue or, if you are in or recently out of the waiting period, please share your story.
- The Part D Monitoring Project captures the experiences of people who have signed up for the privately administered new Medicare drug benefit in order to improve it. Are your drugs being covered? Have you run into trouble at your doctor's office, at the pharmacy or when you've called a private Medicare drug plan for help? Please tell your Part D story so that elected officials in Washington can hear exactly what needs fixing.
- The American Lives Project seeks to reveal the physical, financial and emotional toll that failures in the healthcare system take on older and disabled men and women. If you have suffered as a result of deficiencies in the healthcare system, please read more about the American Lives project and share your experience.