Thinking about buying a Bush drug card? Read this

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http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/8549803.htm

Medicare prescription drug discount cards confusing for seniors

<snip>Next, let's explore the matter of choosing which of the 28 government-approved private companies you should get your discount-card from.

To make this choice, the government suggests you compare such things as drug availability and price before signing with a provider.

Seems like reasonable advice, except for one little hitch.

The discount card company you join is under no restriction to maintain the price that enticed you to join in the first place. In fact, it doesn't even have to guarantee it will continue to carry the drugs you need.

In private business this practice is known as bait and switch. In Republican-controlled Washington these days, it is known as a benefit.

If this provision seems a little one-sided, a little too big-business friendly, consider this: Even if you are baited and switched and generally hosed all over, you are prohibited from moving to another discount card company until your mandatory one-year commitment is up.

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[Senior citizen]

1. I think some seniors in HMOs were forced to sign up.

Hardly anyone else did. AARP backed the fool scheme, and if I was them I'd be constantly looking over my shoulder for angry little old ladies with steel canes and pointy umbrellas looking for revenge.

[happynewyear]

3. worry about tempermental disabled people

They tend to go for the gills IMO. :evilgrin:

[RebelOne]

5. I think that AARP is starting to rethink its endorsement.

Too many AARP members are giving them a lot of static.

[happynewyear]

6. they should, I gave 'em hell

and I'm not even in the AARP!!! LOL again!!! :evilgrin:

[Don_G]

8. AARP Has Its Own Drug Card

400 people had signed up from a mass mailing of 57,000 as of yesterday.

[happynewyear]

2. well I recommend to don't go for any of these scam/shill cards

Such a blatant waste of money. Adds on television 24/7; mail telling you how great it is; waste of paper/trees. The list goes on and on. Geez, a whole 400 people across the USA have ALREADY enrolled! Woahhhhh!

[montanacowboy]

4. "It's the Republican Way"

I hope most Seniors are not signing up -

what amazes me is how many stupid people will continue to shoot themselves in the foot and vote for the idiot/liar/squatter in chief again -

[justgamma]

7. I once tried to compare prices

and the pharmacies I went to said they couldn't reveal that information. Makes it awful hard to shop around.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

9. confusing like this.......

or hard impossibly like this?