Does anyone care about repealing Medicare Part D and replacing it with something better?

[liberaldemocrat7]

Medicare Part D does not help middle class retired and disabled people despite the lies spouted by Phrma.


Then go to http://medicare.dmocrats.org

[Lasher]

1. I care.

I wish we would replace all our healthcare arrangements where insurance company bloodsuckers are part of the scenario.

[bobthedrummer]

2. A lot of us care, and a lot of repeals are needed-starting with universal healthcare for citizens. n

[liberaldemocrat7]

3. Why do I continue to call for a consumer boycott of pharmacy chains?

Because I have seen the Republicans in the senate block.

1 a milquetoast effort to get hhs to negotiate drug prices with the pharma drug companies.

2. importation of drugs from Canada and Europe.

and I have now seen so called Democrat Senator Ron Wyden collaborate with pale white male Republican senator Robert Bennett of FUTAH to get universal coverage by allowing private companies running it. Wyden and Bennett want to do to universal health care what Republicans did to medicare part D and privatize it.

We have to take our fight to the front lines, namely the Pharmacy chains that give money to the GOP.

For every one who calls these pharmacies and demands a real prescription drug benefit for elderly and disabled people, that means less money to these Republican contributors and pressure on them to get us the legislation we want.

Take some action and make some toll free phone calls.

[MiniMe]

4. Senior Citizens care, and they are a pretty solid voting block

[Hidden Stillness]

5. Millions are Outraged by This Horrible Thing

Ever since this horrible thing passed, by both corrupt Republicans and their lobbyist advisors, and ass-kissing "D"LC "Democrats" who went along with everything and just hoped to hide behind "their Republican friends," older people, having been against it from the start, have been getting angrier and angrier at what was done to them. I know that (and I think Sen. Byron Dorgan just spoke on the floor of the Sebate again in this) prescription drug prices--for only the U.S.!--have been skyrocketing, as soon as that filth was passed, and now many needed drugs, for cholesterol, heart problems, antidepressants, etc., are ten times or more, the price they were just before it passed. If anything is a symbol of the complete corporate corruption of what used to be Government, it is this nightmare, where older people on small fixed incomes pay new premiums, out of pocket expenses, and pay for the complete prescription price when they hit the totally artificially-created "doughnut hole" that no one was warned about. They are not eating food, paying for heat during the Winter, having any kind of a life anymore--because they are being strangled to death by prescription gouging, and nothing else! A life of nothing but fear and price-gouging, and this for the great New Deal generation that raised some of these devils, and raised us who care.

Many of the Republicans who pushed this thing in Congress are now lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry, and all Democrats have been hearing from thousands of angry older people or those family members who care for them, ever since. By the way, the specious argument that seniors should not be able to get cheaper drugs from Canada, etc., because they are "not safe" (obviously stupid), is even more stupid because these same corporations outsourced production to Ireland, for example, and so they import and sell here, these same drugs every day. It is all right when the capitalist is killing our economy, but not when older people are trying to keep alive and pay for this gouge. This is a huge issue; it may be ignored by "official" "D"LC, but it is an outrage out here in the real world.

[liberaldemocrat7]

6. but what will you do to replace medicare part D?

go to


http://medicare.dmocrats.org