Q: Is the Medicare drug plan a waste?

Michael Hiltzik saw Marcy Zwelling-Aamot, M.D., a private internist who accepts a limited number of patients, research a website that helps old patients pick the Medicare drug plan that is right for them and that fits their hometown and prescription needs. This website was specifically made for people to know and be aware of the new Medicare drug plan benefits. It had 48 different plans for residents of Southern California, in particular. Private health insurance companies sponsor each of these health plans. They administrate drug benefit provided by the government in order to make a profit.

Zwelling-Aamot told Hiltzik said that instead of this being a boon or an advantage for elderly patients, they just happen to be completely deceived by this system. She claimed that it is a moral, as well as economic dilemma. Apparently, the "drug benefit' provided by Medicare is a single most contemptuous and disdainful cheat committed by the Bush Administration on American customers. This program was first driven into power on the first of January causing a high quantity of patients to prevent computer mistakes from filing improper information. After all, it was designed to capitalize on profits for drug makers and health insurers. There were improperly rejected prescription claims that 25 other states and

Medicare covers people over 65 as well as those who are disabled. So far, those enrolled in Medicare were affected most seriously. At times, the prices will exceedingly over the people's ability to pay once again, making the terrible thing known as debt, reappear. Others may just be in a rut because of the complexity, and will avoid enrolling in the first place. How can elderly patients really know what they are entitled to, if so many American senior citizens have no idea how to go online and search for this information in the first place? The legislation complied later on with a drug industry demand that Medicare will be forbidden from negotiating with manufacturers for lower drug prices. The point is, Medicare does nothing to prevent illness or serious disability for its patients. Now it is worth an estimate of 535 billion dollars. Sadly, money will do nothing to protect the elderly.

Why create a website that explains what you should do, if the majority of senior citizens don't go near the computer? In fact, why even make the rules, and the terms so complex that practically no one can understand them? Medicare is considered a scam and a fake. They merely pretend that they take care of people, when there is really no guaranteed insurance for the elderly patients.