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11.13.2009 5:36 pm

Open enrollment for Medicare Part D starts Sunday

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The time for many senior citizens to make an important choice about their prescription drugs is here. Open enrollment for next year’s Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage begins November 15, 2009 and ends on December 31, 2009.  During this…

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11.13.2009 5:32 pm

Savings from Medicare is in eliminating fraud, not reducing benefits

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Patrick Naeger’s comments regarding AARP’s support of the health care reform bill approved by the House of Representatives illustrates his misunderstanding of the savings generated by the plan.  Mr. Narger’s assumes this money results from reduced benefits.  I suggest that he read the…

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11.13.2009 5:31 pm

Add a “Medicaid Part B” to expand access to health care

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    “To reform our distressed healthcare system, we must have affordable and universal healthcare for every American.” Free Medicaid coverage sounds affordable. But, it is not universal!

    With a visionary expansion to the existing system it could and should be. A…

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11.03.2009 5:36 pm

Folks debating health care reform are ignoring simple economics

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Sadly, many people in the health care debate are ignoring simple ecomonics and common sense in favor of talking points of the right wing and insurance industry coalition. The fact of the matter is that neither the current government system,…
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10.28.2009 6:21 pm

Reasons we need a public option

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Now that the thugs from the organized mobs against healthcare reform have left the town hall meetings and the private sector healthcare insurance companies greed for profits before people has been exposed, it’s finally time to pass a healthcare reform…

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10.22.2009 5:40 pm

Just another government slush fund

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Seventy plus years ago, the Federal Government got into the pension business with the beginnings of Social Security. With the simple thought that no senior in America should be destitute, the government placed a tax on every wage earner with…

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10.19.2009 4:48 pm

Please don’t fiddle with my Medicare

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    As a retired, senior citizen, I can only hope and pray that any health care reform bill passed by Congress will affect neither my Medicare insurance benefits, nor my Medicare supplemental policy. As one living on a fixed income, who depends upon Medicare and AARP to fully…
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10.01.2009 6:18 pm

Want to get something out of senators? Take away their health care

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

With regards Donovan Larson’s posed questions, “How long will Missouri voters put up with our ridiculous senators?” and “When will we and all U.S. citizens get production out of the Senate?”  Many think changing representative’s or senators by voting them…

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09.02.2009 6:15 pm

My experience on Medicare

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It is obvious to me that most complaints about Medicare comes from those not yet old enough to be Patients. My experience follows:
 
Twenty years ago when I first enrolled in Medicare, he conducted all my annual physical testing in his…
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08.26.2009 5:02 pm

When it comes to costs, the government is no better than private industry

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 I am a senior citizen, receiving social security and medicare.  In a recent speech, President Obama stated that the reason we needed to completely reform our health care system was because the insurance companies were raising rates and people could…

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