Feb 16 2004
Medicare TV Ad: Claim v. Fact
CLAIM: “It’s the same Medicare you’ve always counted on, plus more benefits like prescription drug coverage.”
FACT: Millions of Medicare beneficiaries will have less benefits due to this law. Seniors who have supplemental drug coverage through Medigap must drop it if they want to join the new drug benefit. Employers will drop drug coverage for 2.7 million retirees due to the new drug benefit. Employers will reduce drug coverage for up to 9 million additional retirees due to flawed employer subsidies in the law. 6.4 million seniors who have drug coverage through Medicaid now will be forced to enroll in the Medicare drug benefit. As a result, they will have higher cost sharing and be denied coverage entirely for some drugs.
2 Responses to “Medicare TV Ad: Claim v. Fact”
Dearest LaVonne, my dear lovely LaVonne, I used to worry about what my government was up to, and complained about this policy and that. But all I got for it was an ulcer and hives. Now I don’t watch Tv news unless they have something positive to say, like a new space shot or a miracle cure.
The ads are the worst, I kinda think of them as the old snakeoil sellers of the wildwest, you know buy now and we’ll throw in the brooklyn bridge. Only one bridge per customer.
I know its hard to not look at it, but once you find that you can look out the window and watch the sunset, over the satelite dishes and old vhf aerials on the rooftops, and turn the constant noise of TV and radio off for a while. It can help my darling, we seem to forget that a time of quiet and calm can be found just about anywhere if you look and turn the noise off.
You know what I’d like to hear about? Your dreams, your truimphs, your dear sweet inner thoughts, and most of all the poetry of your soul.
Its the little things that wonderment and delicious irony create that make us human, not the stupid and mean things.
Everyone is beautiful, but most choose not to show it, and thats a shame. You don’t need makeup and fancy clothes to be pretty, just a smile is enough.
You talk of getting away from the toxins in your life, well, my opinion is that there are toxins in bad Tv and Radio just as in the products we use too.
Sorry for such a long comment, my dear, but I do care about you.
Yeah, I know I tend to go a little overboard on the toxic stuff. I’ve bored most of my readers away with it. You’re absolutely right that what people want to read is the personal stuff, and I intend to get back to that now that I’ve finished with all the disability paperwork. That kept me in such a tizzy that I couldn’t think about anything else. I do want to write about our poisoned planet too, but maybe I should create a separate blog for that. Still trying to decide.