FALLING DOWN THE DONUT HOLE?

[Crewleader]

WHAT NOW?


By Frank Kaiser

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HELP! I have reached the donut hole. My income is less than $13,500 and I would qualify for all kinds of help — except I have some meager savings. Why should I be penalized for being prudent enough to save a few thousand for my old age? (Thinking that Congress and the AARP would help me with my old age — 80 — was a fantasy.) This gift to Big Pharma is a bad joke on old folks. Can you help people like me? — Romaine Galey Hon, Boise, ID

In a word: Maybe.

This is for the 4- to 7-million American seniors who are today face to face with Plan D's diabolical donut hole.

You forked out the initial $265 deductible.

You’ve paid about 30 bucks a month premium.

And you’ve footed another $500 as your share of the next two grand.

Now the retail cost of your covered drugs has hit $2,400*. Prepare to plunge into the dreaded Donut Hole!

And until your total out-of-pocket cost reaches $3,850, your Plan D insurance company pockets your premiums while giving you diddly in return.

What a deal, huh? Amazing what happens when the drug and insurance lobbyists combine their wicked talents to write a new Medicare Drug Bill.

Thanks, Congress and AARP! Now American seniors are literally dying for lack of cash for medicine.

http://www.suddenlysenior.com/FULLSTORY.html

[partylessinOhio]

1. Anyone that would write a hole like this into a prescription drug plan

has no concern as to what an elderly or disabled person faces living on a fixed income. To take monthly premiums for NO coverage is a scheme worse than the stolen election!

:thumbsdown:

[liberaldemocrat7]

4. Call now.

Call GOP contributor Rite Aid/Eckerd Pharmacy at 1-800-325-3737 ask for the manager and tell the manager to get your CEO to get the Republican party to enact HR 676 Single payer universal health care into law and repeal Medicare Part D and place the prescription drug benefit in Medicare Part B covering 80 percent of all medication with no extra premiums, no extra deductibles, no means tests, no coverage gaps, and remove the means test for Medicare Part B and until you do, we will not buy consumer products and prescription drugs from your company.

[OneBlueSky]

2. I'm hitting my donut hole this month . . . it's gonna cost me about $350/month . . .

for September, October, November, and December -- or about $1400 that I don't have . . . my solution? . . . my credit card debt will increase by $1400 . . . don't want to do it, of course, but I have no choice . . .

[pansypoo53219]

3. welcome to republikan compassionland!

WHEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
enjoy the ride.