On 4/11/24 09:24, Retirednoguilt wrote:
> On 4/10/2024 2:44 PM, T wrote:
>> On 4/10/24 10:38, Mark Lloyd wrote:
>>> On 4/9/24 22:00, micky wrote:
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> I know mine, but I've always thought it's because it's unusually easy to
>>>> remember, repeating numbers in a pattern. I assumed if it was anything
>>>> more complicated I wouldn't know it, even now after 60 years.
>>>
>>> I know mine, and have since I was 18.
>>>
>>>> So I'm asking the normal people here and everyone else too, since I
>>>> don't know to discriminate invidiously.
>>>
>>
>>
>> It was my "serial number" in the military. Never forgot it.
>
> You'd have a new and longer one now (10 digits) for active duty,
> retired, and dependents qualifying for benefits.

It is about time!

I was never really happy giving out my SSN on everything.
Now-a-days with all the identity theft, it is insane

[snip]

After a half century of using your social security number,
Medicare switched to a mixed and unrelated alpha-numerical one.

How many people (with Medicare) know that set?

--
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

On 4/11/2024 7:12 PM, danny burstein wrote:
> [snip]
>
> After a half century of using your social security number,
> Medicare switched to a mixed and unrelated alpha-numerical one.
>
> How many people (with Medicare) know that set?
>
>
>
I do know that mine has a "Q" in it. There is nothing rhythmic about it
that would make is easy to memorize. I guess that is good for theft.
Fortunately, Chrome remembers for the few time I need it.

On 4/11/2024 4:12 PM, danny burstein wrote:
> [snip]
>
> After a half century of using your social security number,
> Medicare switched to a mixed and unrelated alpha-numerical one.
>
> How many people (with Medicare) know that set?

When I got a Massachusetts Drivers License around 1970, My drivers
license # was my SS #.

On 2024-04-11, danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>
> After a half century of using your social security number,
> Medicare switched to a mixed and unrelated alpha-numerical one.
>
> How many people (with Medicare) know that set?

Why should I? Nobody ever asks for it.

--
Cindy Hamilton

On 4/12/2024 4:38 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On 2024-04-11, danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> After a half century of using your social security number,
>> Medicare switched to a mixed and unrelated alpha-numerical one.
>>
>> How many people (with Medicare) know that set?
>
> Why should I? Nobody ever asks for it.
>

They will when you get older. Couple of times a year I need it for some
insurance form for blood tests and such that is billed to Medicare.

In article <66192e73$0$1082206$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>,
esp@snet.xxx says...
> After a half century of using your social security number,
> >> Medicare switched to a mixed and unrelated alpha-numerical one.
> >>
> >> How many people (with Medicare) know that set?
> >
> > Why should I? Nobody ever asks for it.
> >
>
> They will when you get older. Couple of times a year I need it for some
> insurance form for blood tests and such that is billed to Medicare.
>
>

I have the HMO type of old age insurance and have no idea of the number
but just hand them the card which is what they ask for at the doctors
office. They put it in a card reader that goes to the computer.
Never have had to show the medicare card.

On 4/12/2024 9:30 AM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
> In article <66192e73$0$1082206$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>,
> esp@snet.xxx says...
>> After a half century of using your social security number,
>>>> Medicare switched to a mixed and unrelated alpha-numerical one.
>>>>
>>>> How many people (with Medicare) know that set?
>>>
>>> Why should I? Nobody ever asks for it.
>>>
>>
>> They will when you get older. Couple of times a year I need it for some
>> insurance form for blood tests and such that is billed to Medicare.
>>
>>
>
> I have the HMO type of old age insurance and have no idea of the number
> but just hand them the card which is what they ask for at the doctors
> office. They put it in a card reader that goes to the computer.
> Never have had to show the medicare card.
>

I have had cards scanned numerous times in the past but not so much now
seeing the same providers that have all the info. They usually ask for
drivers license, medicare card and supplemental insurance cards. Blood
lab last week to check in there was a machine that scanned the drivers
license.

In alt.home.repair, on 12 Apr 2024 08:38:59 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
<hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:

>On 2024-04-11, danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> After a half century of using your social security number,
>> Medicare switched to a mixed and unrelated alpha-numerical one.
>>
>> How many people (with Medicare) know that set?
>
>Why should I? Nobody ever asks for it.

Doctors ask for the card and the suplemental insurance card, but I've
also had to fill in the medicare number on a computer a couple times. I
keep all this stuff in a computer file, including things in my wallet
because my wallet is usually downstairs and the computer is upstairs.

On 2024-04-12, Ed P <esp@snet.xxx> wrote:
> On 4/12/2024 4:38 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On 2024-04-11, danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> After a half century of using your social security number,
>>> Medicare switched to a mixed and unrelated alpha-numerical one.
>>>
>>> How many people (with Medicare) know that set?
>>
>> Why should I? Nobody ever asks for it.
>>
>
> They will when you get older. Couple of times a year I need it for some
> insurance form for blood tests and such that is billed to Medicare.

1. The health system computer has all of that on file
2. My Advantage plan stands between me and Medicare

--
Cindy Hamilton

On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 23:12:48 -0000 (UTC), danny burstein posted for all of us
to digest...

>
> [snip]
>
> After a half century of using your social security number,
> Medicare switched to a mixed and unrelated alpha-numerical one.
>
> How many people (with Medicare) know that set?

I reported fraud (a zillion covid tests) and just got a new one.

My BIL reported fraud two times and guess what? He got a new card 3 months ago
and a new one the same time as me.

--
Hiram

micky wrote:

>How many of you know your social Security number by heart?
>
>I'm watching some police-arrest videos and when they can't find ID
>they ask the person for his SSN and of course they don't know that
>either, often because they are hiding their identity.
>
>But I wonder how likely it is that a normal person would know his
>SSN.
>
>I know mine, but I've always thought it's because it's unusually easy
>to remember, repeating numbers in a pattern. I assumed if it was
>anything more complicated I wouldn't know it, even now after 60
>years.
>
>So I'm asking the normal people here and everyone else too, since I
>don't know to discriminate invidiously.

I know mine, my wife's and my children's SSNs by heart. Maybe it has
something to do with being in the Air Force at one time and having to
repeat mine over and over and over...