WORRIED: ON MEDICARE

As of this posting there were no comments on Granny's post about Medicare and mental health patients. It isn't just the mental health patients who are being denied -- it is all eligible patients who have not yet enrolled in Bush's drug plan. Worried is one of them, caught up in the confused mess our President has foisted off on us in the name of "helping" us but in reality to enrich the pharmaceutical companies and insurers. In other words, Big Business. I am a "dual", both Medicare and Medicaid, except I'm not full Medicaid. I'm a "partial" Medicaid and no one can explain to me the provisions for people like me. Insurance companies (only 48 to research) demand my letter of eligibility from Social Security, which I do not have because I'm not a full Medicaid recipient. Yet I'm low income, low enough to qualify for the aid to low income seniors. I'm caught in the cracks.

You young people may think this doesn't affect you, but think again. Policies and programs initiated now by Bush will quite probably carry on for many years. Remember:"Once government policy is set, it is almost impossible to overturn." In the fullness of time, you, too, will become old. Hopefully by that time some of this mass confusion will be resolved, or it may place an even greater onus on the elderly and infirm.So it does affect you.

To fully understand the extent of Bush's perfidy in his grand prescription drug plan, his arrogance in ignoring warnings, please check out this article: LA Times; Michael Hiltzik. "Medicare Drug Plan Looks Like a Big Scam".
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-golden19,1,5769430.column?coll=la-utilities-business

Sorry about the long url. When my Compaq gets its overhaul at the computer hospital I will try to learn Granny's neat little trick of creating links without all this url rigamarole.

But please do read this article. If you have no interest in Medicare, read it to see just one more example of how Bush is betraying the people and the depth of his perfidy.