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Utah Official Warns Medicare Recipients to Choose Carefully.

By Carey Hamilton, The Salt Lake Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 3--Beginning today, all of Utah's 219,973 Medicare beneficiaries can enroll for the new Medicare Prescription Discount Card, but experts warn against making hasty decisions.

The reason: The discount card program is confusing because of the myriad choices.

"We're asking the seniors not to rush in and sign up right away," said Sheldon Elman, assistant director of the Division of Aging and Adult Services with the Utah Department of Human Services. "Medicare is cont

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