| Originally posted on 06/04/01 |
| In My Opinion # 10 |
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| Well, Mr. Bush, you pushed through your budget. I see you are already asking for more money. Tell me, if we are in such good shape and have all this extra money, why do Medicare and Medicaid have such high Co-Pays? It is a fact that people on fixed incomes have to dig into their food money for the Co-Pays to the doctors. It is a fact that even if some doctors wave the co-pay, the medicine they prescribe to keep these CITIZENS alive demands a Co-Pay. Welfare and Social Security do not pay enough for people to live on. Then they have to take that money, and spend it on doctors and medicine that should be COMPLETELY covered by Medicaid and Medicare. We work and PAY all our lives believing that when we get old and can’t work anymore the government will return the money we have invested to help us alive and cover our medical expenses. THAT IS THE WAY THESE PROGRAMS WERE SET UP. Now we find that the government has been dipping into our money for years and never replaced it. Now our Seniors have to try to live with the heat set on 55 F. They actually eat cat food! They eat spoiled and moldy food just to put something in their stomachs. Then they can’t go to a doctor till they get really very, very sick because they can’t pay the co-pays. The doctor will then give them a prescription which they can’t get either! I Think YOU, Mr. Bush, should help them NOW! JBS |
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