re: Y2k & the govt.
(Hell, they can't even get it right without any Y2k problems)
Man declared dead by U.S. 'not quite ready to go'
Lexington minister fights health problems
By JOSEPH GERTH, The Courier-Journal
James W. Kemp, 44, is trying to prove to Medicare that he is not dead.
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Easter is normally the season of resurrection. But a Lexington minister declared dead by the federal government has been trying to complete his own rebirth during the Christmas season.
Despite what Medicare says and what the Social Security Administration believed, the Rev. James W. Kemp, 44, is alive and laughing. "I'm not quite ready to go yet," he said.
Kemp, a United Methodist minister who suffers multiple sclerosis, is trying to prove to the federal bureaucracy that he has not passed on and that it should restore benefits that he lost at the end of September.
Some type of bureaucratic mistake led Social Security to declare Kemp dead, and the error passed through computer banks to Medicare, which pays for his health care. Kemp learned of the error in mid-September when his wife, on a routine trip to the bank, was told that the couple's joint account had been frozen -- because Kemp supposedly was dead and his will was being probated.(cont)
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