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Originally Posted by billethkid
as a senior on medicare + medicare part D (Rx coverage) one pays more for a Rx.
Pharmaceuticals like oil are controlled and supported by politicians (including Obama) hence the only ones who make out are the pharmaceutical and oil companies and the politicians they buy out (which is all of them).
Until that changes affordable health care is nothing more than WORDS.
btk
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The Part D Prescription Plan is the worst. At the time it was created I had private coverage & was not required to subscribe to Part D, but I still screamed about how bad it was going to be for seniors & that is exactly what happened. When I had to enroll in Part D, I researched it but still couldnt figure it out so went to a counselor. She listened to me & said that I knew more than her! She spoke about seniors living on the edge, choosing between heating & eating, breaking pills in half to make them last longer, who would come to her office with a shopping bag full of advertising they got from Part D insurance plans & had no idea what to do.
Think of when & who created Part D & you will understand why its goal was mainly to line the pockets of the pharmaceutical & insurance industries. At the same time it became illegal for Americans to buy the same but cheaper drugs from Canada. Why? Because Canada requires the same drug companies to quantity discount their drugs, while the creators of our Part D set it up so that the these companies get whatever THEY consider full freight even though the U.S. population is ten times Canadas.
This is off the topic of Lipitor, but what billiethekid wrote is absolutely right, but we have to look at it in the right time frame. Maybe it can be changed, like now trying to get rid of the donut hole, but who knows?