{"title":"Celebrities and deceptive ads: Medigap sellers mislead many elderly.","authors":"L E Pearson","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many elderly, misled by celebrity and door-to-door sales pitches, are buying unneeded medigap insurance policies. With federal regulations unlikely, it is up to states to stop abuses.</p>","PeriodicalId":79745,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of state government","volume":"62 3","pages":"111-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1989-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Journal of state government","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Many elderly, misled by celebrity and door-to-door sales pitches, are buying unneeded medigap insurance policies. With federal regulations unlikely, it is up to states to stop abuses.