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by Street Kid
All from the WaPo:
First, Michael Leavitt, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
The measure of the drug benefit's success is not whether the program is perfect on its first day but whether we solve the problems quickly. We are doing so, and the system is improving every day. Oh really? Is that why so many people are having difficulty getting their rx's?
Sacramento resident Randi Sanford, 50, who has cystic fibrosis, had to go without the antibiotic infusions she needed to fight an infection because the new Medicare prescription drug benefit would not cover the procedure when administered at home. Or, aren't you aware of them?
According to Senator Charles Schumer, Or, did you think that everything was under control?
Robert Hayes, president of the Medicare Rights Center, states that he had a discussion with Mark McClellan, (Administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) EARLY LAST YEAR: And, have you READ the other two editorials (below)?
Here's one from Leonard L. Edloe, a pharmacist and a pastor:
As a pharmacist, I want to say that we were dealt a lemon with this program. It is confusing for those who are to benefit, and it was turned over to companies that have tried to run it on the cheap... And from Brian Haile, elegibility chief at DC Medicaid:
...more than 16,000 D.C. seniors and people with disabilities have gone without their prescriptions. Medicare Part D...has failed at every turn. Haile also states that those w/AIDS have been denied their rx's, causing an interruption in their treatment, those needing heart rx's or insulin have gone days w/o, the lack of response when calling (800)MEDICARE or their rx plans, and the problems (at the federal level) w/the implementation of Medicare D leaves people w/o care they need. And closes w/the following:
In three weeks, the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services, part of the federal Department of Health and Human Services, has erased much of the progress that the District made in improving access to and continuity of care during the past five years.
Medicare D: Implementation and After-effects | 5 comments (5 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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