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Thank You Carol Shea-Porter

by: Dean Barker

Thu Jun 10, 2010 at 21:31:07 PM EDT
Look what took effect today:
If you're on Medicare, the federal health program for people 65 and older and the disabled, and you've fallen into the prescription-drug coverage gap known as the doughnut hole this year, the U.S. government is putting a $250 check in the mail for you starting Thursday. You don't have to apply for your check because Medicare tracks your drug costs. The agency will send you your $250 check automatically as soon as you reach the coverage gap this year, experts from AARP said during a conference call Tuesday.
You can thank Carol Shea-Porter for that.
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Thank You Carol Shea-Porter | 3 comments
Point of information.... (4.00 / 1)
Two little vials of eye-drops to be used three times a day for three days, in anticipation of surgery to have a cataract removed, cost $279 at the pharmacy.  

Meanwhile, people in the prime of life continue to be dropped by insurance companies.

It's true - (4.00 / 1)
there are political considerations in a republic.  The reason the doughnut hole is closing slowly is purely cost consideration.  I don't like it either, but we keep moving forward.

The recissions will end this September - too late for many, but the high risk pools are beginning to take shape under HHS and the states.  These have the potential to be very helpful to millions.

And this is where Carol and the Dems get very little credit.  They sacrificed the glitz and pr coup of a public option to raise the threshold for qualifying for federal assistance for health care from 300% to 400% of poverty.  This may not mean much to most casual observers, but it is a significant achievement covering almost everyone in the lowest income brackets.

It's not the reform that Carol would have written or preferred.  She knew it didn't excite the grassroots and that it infuriated the Baggers - in other words, it might cost her, politically.  We know what she decided.  She cast her vote for extending health care access for more than 30 million Americans and begin the journey toward universal health care.  

What Carol demonstrated was moral leadership.  She has an ear for the prophetic voice and it's the most we can hope for in our elected officials.  

More like her, please.



"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world." A. Einstein

I wish it weren't (0.00 / 0)
the art of the possible.  But sometimes it is, and Carol fights to the end, but won't give up doing something that moves us in the right direction, if it's that or nothing.  I respect that enormously, it is not an easy thing to do, but it is both moral and ethical.  
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