Alliance for Retired Americans member Dolores talks about her paying for prescription drugs as a cancer survicor and the payments she has to make while in the Medicare Part D doughnut hole.
A video by FamiliesUSA about the Doughnut Hole in Medicare.
On Friday, September 22nd 2006, President Bush’s Part D prescription drug disaster will surprise tens of thousands of seniors when it stops paying for their medications. That’s the day when the average Medicare enrollee falls into Part D’s dangerous “donut hole”. The donut hole exists because conservatives designed Part D more for insurance and pharmaceutical companies than for enrollees.
Tom Scully seems to think that Medicare Part D-Presciption Coverage is competitively priced. In 2010 the monthly premiums and annual deductibles are set to increase substantially from 2009. In 2010, the doughnut hole is only increasing by $130 which isn’t signiificant. Mr. Scully repeatedly states that Medicare Part D-Presciption Coverage is confusing but he pats himself on the back for having designed and implemented the program. A number of viewers who call in tend to differ with his point of view. He doesn’t appropriately answer a number of callers questions and dismisses callers who don’t share his political points of view.