Prescription drugs cost $700 each month, and Candy Baker thought her insurance would be cover her std medication costs. "It gets your nerves worked up and you get all upset," she said of the cost of her drugs.

Patient gave over bank account information and when the New Mexico resident got a phone call asking her to sign up for the insurance savings — she happily gave her bank account number to a company called Pharma Save, company, of Buffalo, NY, which promptly took $299 out of her account.

A health savings card . "It makes you feel pretty bad, especially when you know you ain't got no money to start with," she said.

The woman was fooled by the same line in Tennessee. States Joan Flatly "I was really shocked I could do such a stupid thing," she said, "but I did."

66 people filed similar complaints with the government in the past two months. Mark Cornwall, the assistant director of the Attorney General, believes it's connected to a new scam and fears there may be other schemes going on.

Unsolicited calls or door-to-door visits to a beneficiary are the tactics used," Cornwall said. "These are activities that are prohibited in the health savings card program. …

What has happened to Joan is unquestionably a case where we will pursue a further investigation."

Dazed & Confused

The government fears con artists in at least six states may be preying on citizens who have until May to join the medicare insurance— which critics have charged is confusing and difficult for customers to navigate.

42 million with std's eligible for the program still have not signed up according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which is about half of the people eligible for the program.

Similar complaints about Pharma Save have been received by the New York State attorney general's office. In a statement to Reuters, the company said, "We are an independent company; a health savings company, yet we have nothing to do with insurance."

Pharma Save provides drug discount plans and offered to return Baker's money. She said she has not received it.

Many people have had bad experiences in the past with faulty medical plans.

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