MeBelle
MeBelle 4 Prez 2024
- Jul 16, 2011
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I FELL INTO THE DONUT HOLE
And Obamacare pulled me out.
Because of radical right wing strong hand budget cuts I did not get a COLA, food stamps and section 8 housing but I did get out of the donut hole and thanks to Obamacare. I went to pick up my prescriptions and got out my ATM care to pay for them and I was told I did not owe any thing. I take 13 medications and Copaxone for MS.
My hero, Obamacare. <snip>
Bull crap! When FDR started Medicare, he neglected to include pharmaceuticals.
In 2003 Bush instituted Med part D. Yup, donut hole...where before 2003 Medicare recipients paid for RX out of pocket, unless they were hospitalized. Meds were less expensive prior to 2003 and after 2003 if the elderly fell into the donut hole, they could fall back on Medicaid.
Fourteen meds is way too many. Suggest people on that many meds get a second or third opinion from a neutral party, not their Doc's 'referral'.
"Hospitalists" LOVE keeping their patients loaded up on meds.
Good Luck.