Enrollment low in new drug discount program

Associated Press ^ | May 29, 2004 | Mark Sherman

[RS]

WASHINGTON – As Tuesday's starting date approaches for the Medicare drug discount program, the number of older Americans enrolling for the new benefit has been disappointing, according to some card sponsors.

[RS]

Well Duh... Every news report about this has compared how much lower the prices from Canada are compared to using these cards. I'm waiting to see a new report about the boom in orders to the North since all this free publicity started.

[Piquaboy]

I was under the impression that the elderly could not do without this.

[TomGuy]

That's because the cards are a rip-off to get money into the insurance companies issuing those cards. They only offer about a 10 to 15% discount (and drugs have already risen enough to wipe that discount out) and the cards cost between $20 and $30 annually.

Most people already have cards, some available FREE, that offer at least the 10 to 15% discount.

The card program is just another scam part of the fiasco drug bill.

[Mears]

You were believing what you read in the newspapers,all the AARP crap!

I posted many times on FR that I didn't need this Medicare prescription coverage nor did anyone that I know.

We are all seniors that have lifetime coverage from our previous employers.

Our present coverage is better than that provided by Medicare and the taxpayer doesn't have to foot the bill.

[RS]

"I posted many times on FR that I didn't need this Medicare prescription coverage nor did anyone that I know.

We are all seniors that have lifetime coverage from our previous employers. "

I guess everyone else in the neighborhood has allready died because they didn't work for your employers and couldn't afford their medications ?... </sarcasm>