Pure unadulterated partisan caterwallering!!!
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
ROFLOL!!!!
The gooberment can't even give away our money without making too complicated for the greedy geezer set. Gotta love it!
They have six months to sign up....and that isn't enough time??? Oh brother.......
The new Medicare Part D coverage is causing shock waves throughout the manufacturer, wholesaler, provider and patient community. Good luck.
No. Actually, it is a convoluted mess.
Instead of a simplified copy of the VA drug program, which has been in existence for years, thus tested and proved, the Medicare Prescription program is a complex mesh of if's and but's and exceptions and conditions.
It is difficult to understand. And the dozen or so various prescription insurance plans vary in premiums, coverage, deductions, exceptions and exemptions.
The Prescription Drug program could compete with the IRS for the most convoluted confusing government documentation.
Benefit D is an unmitigated disaster. They should repeal the whole program and save those trillions of dollars. It is a total TOTAL MESS!!! Good luck to average citizens. Pharmacists & doctors can't make heads or tails out of it.
Which means price controls and government rationing of the consequent shortages.
It is a federal fuster cluck that is going to cost a fortune. Should anyone be surprised?
This is just the beginning of another disaster of social policy -- this time courtesy of the wimpish Bush-era Republicans energetically lining up to kiss socialist arse. The logical extreme (reductio ad absurdum) of such Federal entitlement programs must of course lead to spoon-feeding of the useless eaters.
I don't believe that this was a Republican plan - it was a rehash of the Democrats plan - or the bureaucracy and staff of the Democrats - with a little bit of extra for the masses and the drug companies.
I did not want a Medicare "formulary" like the VA has, but I think it would have been better than what we're ending up with.
It seems that the prescriptions have to be sent electronically to the pharmacies. Rural docs and mom and pop pharmacies are going to be stressed. And then, there's the first dollar coverage problem: it covers everyone from the beginning - then cuts off when the patient needs to spend a lot on drugs. Then kicks in after quite a bit of out-of-pocket expenses.
Once again, everybody gets $1.00, whether they are millionaires or broke. And those with the really big bills will end up indigent and on Medicaid.
The other problem is the burden that will be supposedly on the family doctors. I don't think that most of the docs I know can afford another employee just for Medicare Part D claims.
I hoped for some sort of plan, but it does seem as though they took the worst of all possibilities and only chose those.
The problem is that I don't know if we will learn some valuable lessons from the monstrous disaster that Medicare part D is turning out to be, or if it will just be one more excuse to nationalize healthcare.
If few sign up for the plan, do We still have to pay for it?
The government has outdone itself with this disaster. RINOs who tried to out-Democrat the Democrats have once again given a political opening to the Democrats.