Posted on 05/07/2006 4:16:44 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
I don't know what they've been waiting for. I've been enrolled since January 1st and it's saving me money.
I don't see too much appreciation of this BENEFIT.
Why is it most folks gripe about how much trouble it is to get free money.
I did lots of research on the Internet and found Humana to be the best program for my family, and also for several of my friends, based on the medications we/they take.
You and my husband. I don't take any Rx's (so far) but I still signed up for Humana's $6.95 a month premium because I don't want to get hit with the penalty if at anytime I do need Rx's.
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Come on folks. Get that money from your Grandkids!
No conservative could propose and support such a program, and we're paying for its passage through all these earmarks the current GOP leadership is allowing. This runaway pork is what the taxpayers have to pay pass this ludicrous package, ie "Buy off the Opposition".
The US Government...home of the Red, White and Blue Screw.
The real cost/benefit of the program won't be evident for a couple of years. The premise is that if seniors get the medication they need, they'll make less use of emergency medical services, and cost the tax payers less in the long run.
But on a practical side, for political reasons, this may be a boon for Republicans, as the Democrats will be continuing their campaign to paint the program as a failure, and they're already promising to roll it back... Which ought to bring out the largest voting bloc in the country against them.
I waited until yesterday since I didn't want to have to pay the premium for their useless socialist program and the only reason to sign up at all is their draconian penalty.
Not only pure socialism but unconstitutional and should be eliminated along with SS, Medicare, and all other social programs.
""Not only pure socialism but unconstitutional and should be eliminated along with SS, Medicare, and all other social programs.""
those programs are so popular that I am sure congress would pass and the states ratify a constitutional amendment permitting those programs...whoopie then judges can set the budgets
What is the advantage if you already have prescription coverage under your health care plan? With my employer paid retiree Blue Cross plan, the copay is only $5.
"I still signed up for Humana's $6.95 a month premium because I don't want to get hit with the penalty if at anytime I do need Rx's."
I wonder why the difference, I signed both of us up for the same thing and it was $5.41.
As far as i'm concerned government shouldn't pay for anyones existance, either pay your own way in this world or quit taking up space on this planet.
while i dont entirely disagree, it puts you somehwere to the right of 96% of the american people
while i dont entirely disagree, it puts you somehwere to the right of 96% of the american people and i am not interested in ideas that wil lhave 96% rejection...i am interested in what can get done in reality over a period of time, such as the fair tax or abolishing the IRS
The thing about pyramid schemes is the earlier you get in, the more you benefit.
I agree, but if they are giving I will take it. Survival of the fittest.
Acording to my agent, unless one is already paying 800.00 a year in prescriptions, no plan is of any benefit. Personally, if I was taking that much medicine, I just might off myself. and do everyone a favor.
I picked Humana as the best alternative for my wife. Then I read that Humana made a big grab for this market for future inclusion of seniors in total management.
If this makes drugs competitive and people more free to choose, that much is good.
Our presecription costs were running away and Medicare D is keeping things at last year's level, as far as I can tell.
Difficult to understand the program? I have health insurance and other training and I still find the whole system opaque.
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