When they don't buy the boondoggle, it's past time to try honesty


Low income people don't believe the hype on the Medicare Drug Benefit

I'd say that the poor and disabled have a better idea of what will happen than the government.

The poor seem to need more convincing that they'd be helped by the new Medicare prescription drug benefit that begins next month.

The Social Security Administration says it has approved just 661,000 applications for a subsidy that makes the new drug benefit much more affordable for low-income senior citizens and the disabled.

That's just a fraction of the 7 million people who are believed eligible for the subsidy.

Social Security says about 1 million applications remain under review, and new applications are coming in at the rate of 100,000 a week.

So far, rejections outnumber approvals by about 3-to-1.

Experts from various advocacy groups and research groups described the numbers as a letdown.

I think that as people are looking at the paperwork, they know that the system is unworkable.

There are going to be a great deal of people without ANY drug coverage.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Fri - December 9, 2005 at 05:42 AM  Tag


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