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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Yeah know, I do a lot of probono work with the elderly, help them fill out 
Social Security applications, MediCal (Medicaid in California) application, 
etc.  Guess what!  There is something they failed to mention within this 
great a glorious "compationate" new Medicare drug plan.  All the low income 
folks who have the Part A and Part B Medicare will no longer have Medicaid. 
They will now have Medicare.  No choice, the feds have canceled Medicaid. 
O.K., so what's the big deal you say.  Could be the monthly fee that has to 
be paid.  Or the share of cost.  Or the 25% co-pay.  Or the $2000 cap.  When 
you consider that some of these folks only have $500 to $700 a month coming 
in, well, they don't have $36 a month to spend buying into the Medicare drug 
plan.  Nor do they have funds to meet the share of cost or the 25% co-pay or 
the 100% after they reach the $2000 cap.

AND, they want to cut Medicare and Medicaid some more.  Pray tell where?

As my nanny, who was from Georgia, would have said have said to them with a 
meaningful look in her eyes, Why bless your little hearts!  Y'all from the 
south know precisely what she meant!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>


>  First, I read this at:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/politics/30health.html
>
> WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 - Congressional committees have proposed substantial
> cutbacks in Medicaid and Medicare, the nation's largest health insurance
> programs, which together cover more than one-fourth of all Americans.