MEDICARE AND MEDICAID-CONTINUED

porchwise said...

$3.00 co-pay? whtfu must be talking about medicaid because medicare co-pays, right now, have deductables and co-pays that range from fifty and up. And part B never comes close to doctors charges. And the new prescription plan, unless you're poor poor, is not even going to pay for the first $2500. in medicine. With a 4% raise in SS supposedly coming Jan. 1, my part B is going to be raised from 54 to 88 bucks a month, then the cheapest Part D (prescription plan) I can find in Alabama is 28 bucks. All in all, I'm going to lose monthly SS of about 34 bucks and, because I'm diabetic and on a program now with Lilly (which will cease with the new prescription plan) my basic insulin is going to cost64 bucks more a month (up to 2500 bucks, ho, ho) so I guess Dubya's 'help' is going to lower my income by a hundred a month. Pardon me while I upchuck.

Well, it's hard for those who aren't using the programs to understand the problems that those of us who do, face. I was lucky, I guess you can say, that when my dad retired due to heart problems, I was still in college and therefore was listed as a dependent child. So, when he got all his Medicare information, they sent me a Medicare card too, part A and part B. I had also, because before then, was on SSI and had Medicaid, BUT, even then Medicaid was limited on what they would cover. As it is now, if anyone can believe, what little check I get a month, that is more than what Medicaid allows, so therefore I can't get Medicaid, but I still have my Medicare.

As it is, I'm not on any kind of medication program. I just take antibiotics when ever I develop a kidney infection. And I'm sometimes lucky enough that my doctor has samples he can give me. With the way companies are dropping their health plans I don't know if it would be any better if I were working.