Should run, don't walk, to sign up.

How many applied is kind of irrelevant compared to how many will get assistance. If they reported 3 million people enrolled in the extra help today, we would be opening the champagne bottles.

There's so much complexity that in a sense the people confused by the benefit are the ones who are the most knowledgeable on Medicare. And for sure, there will be many people who will be confronted with the complexity and, sadly, they will throw their hands up and give up.

Unless you have a crystal ball that guarantees you'll be healthy for the next year, you're better off signing up if you can afford it.

In my humble opinion, it's the single most convoluted benefit program in American history.

It's the neediest, oldest, sickest, poorest group of folks.

The (poll) numbers suggest an abysmal program. This benefit was designed to make it impossible for consumers to understand it.

All of these things have the patient deal again and again with the trauma in a safe way, so the original trauma doesn't have the power to tap into those fears.

The evidence is becoming overwhelming that the program does not work.