Why Medicare Part D failed

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Newburgh - They say Eddie Rosa was good about taking his meds.

Every month, he'd walk in to Ace Drugs on Broadway and pick up his prescriptions, all 23 of them.

"Like clockwork," says Marty Irons, a pharmacist there.

But then came Jan. 1 and the new Medicare drug plan. Eddie had to start paying a bit for his prescriptions. He complained he couldn't afford it. In February, Eddie didn't come pick them up. A few weeks later, Eddie died.

http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2006/04/15/news-tleddie-04-15.html

[mdmc]

1. if the gov was allowed to negotiate drug prices, schedule D would work

It is all of these small co-pays that add up and put poor people with health concerns at risk. Schedule D requires co-pays to be provided to the pharmacy up front. While these fees can be abolished by the pharmacy as a courtesy, this "plan" certainly is not working.

[reality based]

2. Thank you, AARP, for your role in this atrocity!

[mdmc]

3. I think that AARP is trying hard to back peddle

but it is too late. An easy solution seems to require negotation of drug prices by the govt.

[mdmc]

4. 4-18

[mdmc]

5. 4-21

[neverforget]

6. It's a failure because anti-gov't, pro-corporate Republicans designed it.

How can a government program work if the people who designed it hate it? It's a setup for failure. The pukes saw this as an easy high yield political point but, with any program designed by them to help people, only ends up hurting the people intended to help and enriching their corporate masters.

[mdmc]

7. yes

[area51]

8. Repubs = killers of the poor & elderly.

Republinazis = culture of death.

[no name no slogan]

9. Just like it was supposed to

This plan was meant to dispell any notions of "Medicare for All" from the minds of most Americans.

As conservative columnist P.J. O'Rourke said, "Republicans say government doesn't work, and then get elected to prove it". The whole plan seems like it was built to fail: a money grab for the drug and insurance companies, lack of bargaining power for the federal government, and a confusing maze of applications and coverage options.

It is part of a larger plot by the right wing to dismantle the social safety net.

[CountAllVotes]

10. Nonprofits will help "sometimes" (yeah right!)

>> There are also nonprofits that can sometimes offer help to people with specific conditions.

I'll bet! Lot's of these "nonprofits" are out there with their hands WIDE open just waiting to help people like Eddie! :grr: :argh: Where are these places? Do they even exist? I sort of know the answer already and the answer is a big fat NO ... another LIE. That is the mantra of this maladministration!!!

:grr:

:kick:

[lovuian]

11. Another thing to piss off people and heres my question to the

drug companies Eddie paid you money for years but now he's dead
wheres your money now... Screw you!!!

[mdmc]

12. good question

:kick: RIP eddie!