Posted on 02/29/2012 3:20:31 PM PST by matt04
Joe Courtney held up the poster-sized chart and pointed to the numbers printed in purple: 7,700 seniors in his Eastern Connecticut district got a discount on their prescription drug payments last year, thanks to federal health reform. That included 530 seniors from Enfield, where he had come to chat at the senior center, 143 in neighboring Suffield and hundreds more in several other towns listed on the chart.
"This chart shows that there is improvement that's happening to the system," the congressman told the audience of 50 or so seniors. He noted that the health reform law is phasing out the Medicare "doughnut hole" that requires seniors to pay for drugs out-of-pocket once their plan has covered a certain amount, but he added that it will take time before all their costs are gone.
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If this were a re-election speech, it wasn't much of a rousing argument. But Courtney has been on a different sort of campaign: pointing out the benefits of the controversial Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The third-term congressman from Vernon hasn't missed many chances to tout the upsides of a law that many of his fellow Democrats have not gone out of their way to promote. Courtney brought a primary care doctor to town hall meetings last year to talk about patients whose cancers were discovered because of free wellness visits that Medicare now covers because of health reform. He's delivered floor speeches to point out what he considers positive developments from the law, about which Americans remain divided, according to national surveys.
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And if they dare disagree with a Dem, I suspect suddenly their meds will stop getting paid for by the government.
You know, it’s bad when the b$%^#$#s take advantage of a poorly-educated populace, but it’s genuinely ugly and despicable to take advantage of older people who are in position of weakness and probably aren’t as sharp as they once were.
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