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LIKE, DUHHHHH !!!!!!
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| It was a plan hatched up by the republican criminals and written by the
underwriters of the republicon campaigns,
a payback,
so what did everyone expect ???,
an honest plan,
or one that would keep the drug companies rich and money flowing to the
corrupt republicons,
let's see sordo or one of the other apologists for the nazis spin this one
"Jan Drew" <jdrew1374@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:Bs7_g.14584$GR.12250@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net...
> http://www.newstarget.com/z020803.html
>
> NewsTarget.com printable article
> Originally published October 18 2006
> Medicare drug plan was bait-and-switch scheme; plan prices to skyrocket
next
> year
> (NewsTarget) The least expensive Medicare drug insurance policies under
cost
> elderly and disabled Americans 44 percent more in 2007, based on recent
rate
> quotes published by the government.
> Monthly costs for the cheapest Medicare plans will rise from $9.46 to
$13.58
> according to information compiled and released by Medicare. But that's not
> all; Humana Inc. -- the largest provider of low-cost drug plans -- has
> raised prices 500 percent in some cases, and Medicare itself reduced its
> monthly subsidy by 15 percent to $80 per person.
>
> Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, said that "Many people
are
> going to feel that they are victims of a bait-and-switch tactic...there's
no
> question that it will be an extraordinary disappointment."
>
> Democratic Representative Henry Waxman of California added that "The
> department's numbers appear to be wrong, and they disguise significant
> increase in premiums for Medicare drug plans . the release of erroneous
> information about the cost of premiums -- whether deliberate or not -- is
a
> disservice to millions of seniors."
>
> Although 2007 estimates for Medicare plans are not being backed down by
> Medicare officials, the new plans for 2007 include costs of stand-alone
drug
> plans and programs where people sign up with insurance companies for
> administration of all of their benefits, according to Mark McClellan, the
> administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in a
> response letter to Representative Waxman.
>
> "The Medicare drug plan was never really about saving money for senior
> citizens," explains Mike Adams, a consumer health advocate and critic of
> drug company profiteering. "It was a politically-motivated scheme to
ensure
> the continued profits of pharmaceutical companies by locking in drug
> customers while making it illegal for the federal government to negotiate
> volume discounts. It should have been called the Big Pharma profit
> preservation plan."
>
>
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