Re: Medicare Bill

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (DWood78828) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Subject: Medicare Bill
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>  
> >OK folks, what do you think of it? Is it a big fat payoff to the
> >insurance and pharmaceutical companies or a needed modernization of
> >Medicare? Why did 15,000 members of AARP drop out in anger because
> >AARP supported it? Why did the Wall Street Journal call it the best
>  
> >bill ever? What the hell does it all mean?
> >
> >Bettina
> 
> It is a crock.  It will benefit the drug companies.  I can get five months of
> reduced cost medications and then I'm out of luck.  I do not intend to sign up
> for it.
> 
> Denise

I haven't figured it all out yet but think it's a bad bill, too, with
more benefits for for-profit insurers and health plans and pharma than
for Medicare beneficiaries.
A drug benefit is popular because it's true that drugs are becoming
the most important part of medical care, but it's also true that the
elderly are often overmedicated and as long as doctors have the power
to write endless prescriptions, some will be unnecessary, some will be
too costly, and some drug combinations will kill the patient.

Bettina