Tenn. Health Program Caller Gets Sex Line
Posted on: Tuesday, 10 January 2006, 18:00 CST
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - At least one enrollee in TennCare, the state's health program, got a surprise when she dialed an insurer's toll-free help line and got a pitch for sex talk.
Bethany Morgan said she used a 1-800 number promoted by John Deere Health, an insurer that administers TennCare benefits, to order new prescription cards.
She said a message on that line prompted her to call another number that told her: "Welcome to an exciting way to go live one on one with hot horny girls who are waiting now to talk to you."
"I've never encountered anything like this before," Morgan told WATE-TV. "I thought I was going to get insurance cards, not a sex line. I didn't hear all of it, I hung up."
Morgan placed another call to make sure she was dialing correctly.
"I dialed the number again that they gave me and I was like 'OK, I'm not losing it, it's really a sex line."
Morgan said she had called the same number months ago when she needed assistance and had no problems.
Todd Florence, a spokesman for John Deere Health, released a statement Tuesday that said the company "regrets this mistake and is taking action to ensure the correct phone number is published in the future."
He said the company had "mistakenly printed an incorrect telephone number that appeared in our newsletter for TennCare members."
The phone number was previously a John Deere Health customer service number but had been discontinued in December and was not updated in the publication.
"The phone company that owned the 800 number then sold it to another business," the statement said.
Source: Associated Press/AP Online
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