Medicare Bill, Good or Bad?

[Rob43]

Hi, What do you have to say about the Medicare bill the persident and others are trying to pass?


Rob43

[Jon]

It sounds like it is going to cost taxpayers a bunch of money without solving any of the problems medicare has. If anything, it will probably cost medicare patients more money for prescriptions. Even the commercials I have seen promoting this bill say that it is not perfect.

[rzrbks]

HUMOUNGOUS amounts of money for the Ins. companies and Drug companies with less and less going to the people

Remember this is the Organized Political Group that wants to get rid of Medicare, Medicaid and most importantly get rid Social Security


BTW, the CEO of AARP is a former Nixon :mad: Secretary--that should tell you something

[lgvincent]

I believe it is going to cost a lot of money and provide little in return. A big concern for me is if it is anything like medicare is now, you won't be able to choose the cheapest pharmacy to buy drugs from, you'll have to buy them from an "approved" pharmacy. There will be no reason to lower prices, the pharmacies in the program will probably charge just as much as they can get for each prescription because they can get away with it and the people in the program won't have many, if any, other pharmacies to choose from.

[rzrbks]

Thanks for reminding me, lgvincent. We also get stuck with HMO and PPO. Unless you're rich or a member of Congress--

If you want the real names of those "Organizations" watch As Good As It Gets and observe the translation of their name by Helen Hunt, Notice too, that the Dr. character agrees with thier name--actually my PCP agrees with that name as well.