Constant Medicare XXX calls

[haapai]

My name is quite similar to that of one of my parents.  I also lived with them on and off for many years in my twenties and our credit reports kinda merged together but were never worth untangling since neither of us was being hurt by having the other's history merged with theirs. 

Now I am in my fifties and I'm constantly getting robocalls for some Medicare-type product that I am certainly not eligible for.  Does anyone else out there have this problem?  It does not matter how butch or how rude I get with the robot, the calls just keep coming.  Am I alone with this problem?  Has anyone else had this problem and figured out how to make these calls stop?  Eventually I will answer one of these calls in front of someone who I wish to think of me as a kind person and I'm not being kind to the 'bots anymore. 

[TheOtherMe]

I don't answer calls from unknown numbers.  People will leave a message if they want to talk to me.

I block spam calls.  Verizon blocks a lot of them and they don't ring.

A bot cannot be talked to.  You are wasting your time.

[susana1954]

This happened to the point that my ex-husband's wife PMed me on Facebook about it.  The robo-callers had gotten their number, and it was driving them nuts.  She framed it in such a passive-aggressive way that I laughed: she wanted to make sure that I wasn't missing important calls about my Medicare future. Could I correct my phone number in whatever online data base they were calling from.

No, I can't.  And you can't either.  The good news is that it eventually tapers off substantially.  I am now almost 70.  I get a couple during Medicare enrollment season, but not many.  I get way more about the warranty of my (seventeen-year-old?) car expiring.

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Not sure this will help, but we have a white list for our landline.  There is a list of numbers we allow through, otherwise the call goes immediately to voicemail.  The landline gets those numbers we have to give out, but don’t want to.  

The rest get either of our cell phone numbers.  I have gotten a lot of calls from people wanting to put an extended warranty on my car, but one of the things I noticed is that since I got back to the US, the calls have stopped.  I think those 6 months, the calls fell into a black hole and whatever system is out there deemed it inactive, and took me off the list.  
The Medicare commercials are driving me nuts!  I can’t imagine the $$ spent on ads and Joe Namath!

[NoNamePerson]

Nov 5, 2023 12:03:43 GMT -5 The Walk of the Penguin Mich said:

Not sure this will help, but we have a white list for our landline.  There is a list of numbers we allow through, otherwise the call goes immediately to voicemail.  The landline gets those numbers we have to give out, but don’t want to.  

The rest get either of our cell phone numbers.  I have gotten a lot of calls from people wanting to put an extended warranty on my car, but one of the things I noticed is that since I got back to the US, the calls have stopped.  I think those 6 months, the calls fell into a black hole and whatever system is out there deemed it inactive, and took me off the list.  
The Medicare commercials are driving me nuts!  I can’t imagine the $$ spent on ads and Joe Namath!

And the one with the little old lady screeching AL at the top of her lungs.  I thought I told you to blah blah blah.  I didn't know that someone could call and sign me up. Thought I had to do it myself. That's the message I get from the screeching baboon!!! AL can sign her up  

[Pink Cashmere]

I got calls for Medicare stuff for months after I contacted “A Place For Mom” after she came to live with me. Several calls/day, for MONTHS, about damn Medicare. That is went I finally really stopped answering calls from unknown numbers.

They were the only people I contacted about my Mom, and after I started getting bombarded with so many calls, I understood the price for their “free” service to help find services and housing for senior citizens. I was so aggravated that I never followed up with them.

Fast forward FIVE years, and now “A Place For Mom” is calling me several times/week. That is pissing me off, because after 5 years, anything could’ve happened with my Mom. I am very grateful that she hasn’t, but how do they know she hasn’t died since then? They don’t know, and I feel like it is insensitive to start calling me again at this point, because I am sure that there are other people who called them for help with their parents, whose parents DID actually die before A Place For Mom decided to start trying to contact them again some years later. If it is a business genuinely interested in helping people, they wouldn’t have sold my information to people that bombarded me with calls about Medicare, when I was on,y in my 40’s and not even close to qualifying for Medicare.

Like another poster (NomoreDramaQ1015) has been talking about, there is a lot about elder care that is a racket, and has nothing to do with actually taking good care of elders. It’s all about money and trying to get every penny possible out of the elders that need care, and the family members that are trying to see about them. 

I am not in the best of moods these days, and if A Place For Mom calls me one more fucking time before I can get my mind right, there is the possibility that I might answer the phone and use a lot of profanity.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

A Place for Mom is the worst. They are the Yelp of elder care and they sell your information.

My mom tried them for grandma and she screamed at the last rep. She was getting God knows how many calls a day from them and every random aspect of elder care you could think of trying to get her to sign up for crap.

[irishpad]

The sad thing is that this is not even Medicare.   It is for Medicare Advantage which is private insurance instead of the government program.  If you sign up for medicare advantage, you are no longer on Medicare.  This private insurance then determines if they are going to accept you claims.   We need to either get rid of this totally or at least not let them use the Medicare name when they advertise.