Mind the Gap, Medicare
Are Medicare and Medicaid Services designed to worsen the health needs of the older and disabled Americans who are living on low to moderate fixed incomes? Today’s Washington Post analysis dispels the myth of Medicare drug plans, as the Medicare’s new Part D prescription drug program forces seniors to fork out $2,850 each before the coverage can resume.
In the coming five months, several million Americans will find themselves unable to pay for the gap in insurance, called the “doughnut hole” thanks to the shady Medicare policy which is designed to be misunderstood.
The Post says, “Under a standard plan this first year, Medicare handles 75 percent of drug costs after a deductible until the bill reaches $2,250. It does not kick in again until those costs total $5,100.”
Campaign for America's Future , a Washington-based advocacy organization, says seniors enrolled in the program at the start of the year will, on average, reach the doughnut hole Sept. 22. As of now, there are 22.5 million people who are enrolled in this program! The organization says, “President Bush's Part D prescription drug disaster is costly, confusing and corrupt. It was written by and for big pharmaceutical and insurance companies, and will cost millions of dollars in excess cost to U.S. taxpayers, seniors and disabled.”
And there are three more months to go, before we are hit by another anti-people governmental plan. Yet again.
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