How many have fallen into the "Donut Hole" so far?

[Imagevision]

Has anyone found any freeebie companies supplying drugs?

$2250.00 then no coverage till $5100.00

[OwnedByFerrets]

1. You can bet your last donut

its not a number the repugs will be campaigning on.:mad:

[Traveling_Home]

2. Low Income

I'm one of the fortunate. With my income from SSDI and my assets I qualify for the LIS (Low Income Subsidy) program and have no "Donut Hole".

T

[landerzoo]

3. ping nt

[liberaldemocrat7]

5. Didn't you alredy have drug coverage before the Republicans created this travesty part D?

Most people with low incomes had medicaid type programs cover drugs until you got hijacked into this program to hide the fact that middle class retirees and disabled people who did not get coverage before would get such a crap meager benefit. Then those dishonest Republicans could say but we're helping the poorest of the poor.

But if you have a middle class income, move along citizen we have nothing to help you.



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[Traveling_Home]

6. No

"Most people with low incomes had medicaid type programs cover drugs until you got hijacked into this program to hide the fact that middle class retirees and disabled people who did not get coverage before would get such a crap meager benefit. Then those dishonest Republicans could say but we're helping the poorest of the poor."

Not my situation. I had Medicare A & B and no Prescription Coverage. I had too high an income and too many resources for SSI or medicaid. The Low Income Subsidy program of Part D has much higher income and resource limits then SSI and Medicaid (e.g. $10,000 Liquid Assets vs $2,000).

The Medicare Part D program has been a real blessing in my situation. Be careful what ya screw with in the name of Politcal Zealotry.

[liberaldemocrat7]

7. Bingo. the Republican party has managed to separate the middle class from the lower middle class

and the poor. They have accomplished their goal. Zealotry? Double bingo. They got you bamboozled. Alot of middle class people don't have what you have. We want everyone to have the best coverage. scrap the program and put the benefit in part B.

[Traveling_Home]

8. Now I understand ....

If I, a person with a disability, doesn't share your view of my victimized reality then I am being bamboozled. Open the reeducation camps and shuffle us in. Disabled peopel are a tool to be used by political operatives with an agenda. Well at least you see us a good for soemthing.

[liberaldemocrat7]

9. Yes the Republicans use people like you.

You have criticized me for criticizing the Medicare Part D program. The Republicans never gave the poor anything. Never. They hijacked low income people into part D.


What yearly income limits qualify you for the low income subsidy for covering the coverag gap. Even then middle class people have to pay those 35 dollar a month premiums and the $250 annual deductible over the part B premiums and deductibles which should have covered the prescription drug benefit in the first place.

Noone's shipping you off to a reeducation camp. But your lack of compassion for the middle class plays in to the Republicans hands. Do you consider yourself a liberal, a moderate?

I have read about disabled people suffering from stockholm syndrome as hostages to Republican ideology and they spout just about everyone of their talking points.

Yes scrap Medicare Part D, place the Medicaid beneficiaries back in Medicaid where they had full prescription drug coverage and put the prescription drug benefit in part B and cover it like a doctors visit with no extra premiums, deductibles, coverage gaps and remove the means test the Republicans snuck into part B in the 2003 law.

Why do you only consider people like yourself and say the heck with the middle class who have incomes over 16,000 dollars a year who don't get covered by any subsidies and which an income makes us hardly wealthy.

[cutlassmama]

10. Medicaid in my state only pays for 3 prescriptions drugs a month

I take 23. Any other ideas?

[cutlassmama]

11. my son does (age 21), but I don't. My copays on 23 medications

are literally eating my lunch (and dinner). The "programs" are for people without other insurance coverage. Since I have a supplemental plan, to cover doctors and hospital, which I desperately need, they don't care about my $55.00-$40.00 co pays on EACH medication. Add up what 23 meds a month is. It is A LOT. :mad: I've got a really, really HUGE donut hole

[hashibabba]

4. Fortunately, I am eligible from *extra help* and therefore only

pay $2.15 for generic and $5.25 for brand name drugs. Otherwise I'd be in deep trouble. They already raised the prices in the first year, so who knows what *extra help* will actually mean in years to come.