Those overcharged through Medicare might be out of luck

McClatchy reports:

If you've been overcharged by Medicare's prescription drug program, don't count on getting your money back any time soon, if at all.

And don't count on Medicare to help you, either.

The government-run elderly health care program appears to have washed its hands of any responsibility for mistakes that have cost subscribers and taxpayers several billion dollars.

That was the message contained in Medicare's response this week to a series of questions about problems with the prescription drug program posed earlier this year by Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri.

Great moments in socialism.