McCotter Leading Seniors over the Edge
McCotter part of health insurance scheme that will deny coverage as deadline arrives today
Dearborn Heights, MI—Today is the deadline for American seniors to sign up for the Republican Medicare prescription drug program. Rep. McCotter and the rubberstamp Congress refuse to extend the sign up period. This program demonstrates this Congress’ and administration’s incompetence, pro-lobbyist agenda, culture of corruption and putting politics before good policy. Although literally voluntary, the new drug benefit imposes a late enrollment penalty on those who do not enroll when they are initially eligible to do so. Millions of Americans will miss the deadline because they are confused by the array of competing plans or
simply unaware of the cutoff date.
“McCotter and the rubberstamp Republican’s Prescription Drug program is a slap in the face to Michigan Seniors,” said Democratic Congressional Candidate Tony Trupiano. “This is the generation of Americans who fought in the bloodiest World War, saved the world from fascism, stopped the spread of communism and this is how we honor their sacrifices for this country.”
Incompetence: Initially, there were only 300 Medicare customer services representatives to cover 43 million Medicare recipients. Now they have increased the quantity of representatives but reduced the quality according to General Accounting Office study. McCotter does nothing…
Pro-lobbyist: Instead of providing drug coverage directly, Part D is a complex system of subsidies to private insurance companies. Additionally, the law does not allow the federal
government to use its bargaining power to lower the cost of drugs because of the enormous campaign contributions the Republicans receive from the pharmaceutical companies. McCotter does nothing…
Culture of Corruption: Soon after the drug bill was passed, the congressman and the administration official most responsible for drafting the legislation both left public service to make money off the bill they wrote. McCotter does nothing…
Politics over Policy: Drug coverage could have automatically been applied to traditional Medicare coverage and eliminated the insurance industry middleman. However, it would have been bad politics for the Republican agenda to privatize traditional social insurance programs and Social Security. McCotter does nothing…
