Friday, October 12, 2012

Who are the medicare death panels members? Look to the GOP

Death panels, oh me oh my.  Ryan and the Republicans want to talk about death panels.  Well, who is on that death panel?  Look at the GOP and Bush 43 who passed the medicare part D prescription drug doughnut hole.  There they are, the party of Lincoln, all honorable men, willing to spend billions on wars but if grandma needs more pills they take the oft repeated myth of the European health care system and bring it right into law, no care after a certain point, isn't this what they rail against, arbitrary no exception control of your health by government?
At some point in the year if your disease requires enough meds to hit your limit of coverage in part D you have to spend (in most current cases) $4,550 on your own on drugs to get to the other side, can't do that then lay in the hole.  Do you have that set aside, every year as long as you live?  The death panel is the republican body who put that program in place, there is your death panel, and they defend it, so the current set of GOP is also the death panel.

Romney can't imagine, doesn't believe, that anyone could be so poor they would die from lack of insurance.  Shit fire man, there are people right now dying of high blood pressure, cancer, heart troubles, disease, because in the doughnut hole they don't have insurance, or at least not an active life saving insurance.  And so they endure, maybe they make it through the year and start again marching to the end of their med supply, but some see treatable issues bloom into multiple maladies, some die, die because of the real death panel, the panel of hard ass republican right wingers on the take from health care industry and propped up by willful misuse of the Christian faith for purposes of power and the suppression of races and classes.  And Mitt can't see it, he never will.

Obama care already has made the doughnut hole less painful by picking up a small portion of each prescription drug they buy while in that hole.   And each year for the next few the co-pay in the hole gets smaller, less deadly, until the death panels trap is filled in.   Vote for Romney if you want the Bush era's death panel to come back, to ream out the hole again, to cut off some more grandpa's.

1 comment:

  1. The whole reason that the VA's hospitals and clinics are full of vets on Medicare is the cost of the drugs. Right now, Mom pays $5 for a 30 day supply - But, that is a generic! Part D has formulary drugs in three levels - You start using that expensive shit and you are eating ramen or dog food for supper.
    The neat thing with the VA is that the cost is $9 regardless of the medicine dispensed. But, you also pay nine for shit you can get with Part D for five or even free!

    Sarge

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