Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Medicaid
Medicare

Kim Kimberly, there was a time not long ago when the federal body that oversees those programs went through a branding exercise. I was marginally involved in this in my capacity as a PR consultant to HHS and HCFA.

Unfortunately they decided to call it CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which infuriatingly does not align with the abbreviation at all).

They did not listen to my impassioned argument for calling it MAMA (Medicare and Medicaid Administration).

Honestly I am still a little bitter about this. It's been 20+ years. I waffle between wishing that my clients would take my advice (because I am cute and occasionally come up with a clever idea), and realizing that no one should take my advice ever (because I am a deeply flawed person and sometimes I stake my career and my reputation on pursuing a stupid pun).

I've worked in Medicaid for maybe 12 years now and although i get Medicare is federal for olds and Medicaid is state for low income, I still don't understand it. Some claims Medicare pays a portion of and Medicaid pays a portion and then there is third party insurance (which makes no sense because you can't get Medicaid over 65 - or whatever it is now - and visa versa) and it's just like FFS universal healthcare, please.

Medicaid also for certain disability categories, which is just one small drop in the vast bucket of how unnecessarily complex and arcane our health care "system" is

A sign that I've been pretty out of the loop when it comes to "popular" music:

Until today, I've been mixing up Jack Harlow with Morgan Wallen.

Belisarius
Bellerophon

Jimmy McGriff
Jack McDuff

Ok Jack wears the captain’s hat. Got it.

Those two must have been mentioned before. I'd add Champion Jack Dupree for good measure.

Cambyses I/II (Persian emperors)
Cyaxares I/II (Median kings)

Alyattes (Lydian king)
Astyages (Median king)

stevie ray vaughan
stevie van zandt

Wait until you hear about Ronnie, Donny and Johnny Van Zant

Johnny Van Zant
Jimmie Vaughan

Anker
Belkin

I think I've been merrily buying products from each for years thinking they were the same brand

cuir, French for "leather"
cuivre, French for "copper"

^otm

Anker
Belkin

tbf they're probably made in the same Chinese factories

Louis Aragon
Andre Breton

i'm getting into Stina Nordenstam and don't think i will mix them up again xp

― The true speed of Billy Joel (Deflatormouse)

update: i'm still getting those two mixed up

nam phrik
nước chấm

Love and Rockets
Cowboy Junkies

why? no idea

Chuck Israels
Israel Crosby

Pigbag
Rip Rig + Panic

Gaz Coombes
Cass McCombs

Wasn't sure if it was Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, or Chris Pine who had starred as "Oz" in American Pie, but it turned out to be Chris Klein.

Peace, man, your Chris conglomeration (Chrispalooza? Chrisbundance? Chrisgestion?) Put me in mind of the Dermot Mulroney/Dylan McDermott nexus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGqSn5Cnw74

Jean Redpath
Jean Ritchie
Jeannie Robertson
Jeanie C Riley

Let's not forget their male cousins

John C Riley
Jean Ralphio Saperstein

frederick wiseman
william klein

― budo jeru, Monday, August 17, 2020 6:11 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

add william friedkin to this

all are alive, william friedkin the youngest at 87

James Dillon
James MacMillan

frederick wiseman
william klein

― budo jeru, Monday, August 17, 2020 6:11 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

add william friedkin to this

― budo jeru, Tuesday, May 23, 2023 10:19 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

all are alive, william friedkin the youngest at 87

― budo jeru, Tuesday, May 23, 2023 10:19 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

William Klein died last year, one way to tell them apart.

finally got them straightened out, but back when --

Denis Villeneuve
Olivier Assayas

xp oops

the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still dead

Mary Kay Place
Mary Beth Hurt

Long thread to search, so maybe this has been mentioned before: George Maharis (Route 66, just died) and George Chakiris (West Side Story).

^Was just thinking the exact same thing

I literally mixed them up when I read the post in the obituary thread.

Might've posted this one before, but:

Karen Allen
Karen Black

Karen Allen
Brooke Adams

Karen Allen, Brooke Adams, and Margot Kidder were once so similar looking that they joked about making a movie together

Lock thread!

I feel like we have discussed the Margot Kidder / Karen Allen / Debra Winger before

karen allen best

Irwin Winkler
Henry Winkler

Carroll Baker
Sue Lyon

Graham Parker
Graham Bond

I could never keep Graham Parker and Graham Parsons apart until the No Depression era, when the later's reputation totally eclipsed the Pazz & Jop fav.

Harry Chapin
Harry Nilsson

(Not really, but I did talk about the one not long ago when I meant the other)