The Daily Background

From page A01 of today’s Washington Post:

A $400 million campaign by the Bush administration to enroll low-income seniors in prescription drug coverage that would cost them just a few dollars per prescription has signed up 1.4 million people, a fraction of the 8 million eligible for the new coverage.

At this rate, by some calculations, the government is on track to spend about $250 for each person it enrolls, and even then it would have only 2 million poor senior citizens taking advantage of what is perhaps the most generous government benefit available today.

Failure. Yet another confirmation that the Republican Medicare ‘reform’ is a failure which has effectively kicked seniors off their existing Medicare coverage, and uninsured every senior citizen in America, requiring them to use a new complicated process to re-sign-up.

And what’s more, they have to choose from dozens upon dozens of complicated plans, while their doctors are not allowed to advise them. This Medicare plan is an utter failure. I’ve written about the new Medicare ‘reform’ before (includes blog roundup of reaction to the new ‘reforms’).

Filed under: Medicare Related, Z-TDB Blog