Will Medicare checks in the mail help Democrats?

[cbdo2007]

Will Medicare checks in the mail help Democrats?

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press Writer Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar, Associated Press Writer – 50 mins ago
WASHINGTON – A check from Uncle Sam gets your attention, even if the money doesn't help that much with the bills.

More than 750,000 Medicare recipients with high prescription costs each got a $250 government check this summer, and 3 million-plus more checks are going out to people who land in the program's anxiety-inducing coverage gap.

Democrats, running scared in an election year, are trying to overcome older people's mistrust of the new health care law, which expands coverage for younger generations by cutting Medicare payments to hospitals and insurers.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_medicare_checks

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Read through the article, it's a stunning look at how Seniors look at the new law and their hatred of Obama. One guy says, he doesn't know who he'll vote for in November because they checks aren't enough to help Seniors with their drug payments....what, so he's going to vote for the Republicans who put the donut hole in there to begin with??

How can anyone be mad at Obama for trying to close the Medicare prescription drug donut hole, when Republicans are the ones who passed it to begin with?? Isn't any help better than what they did, which is just make seniors fend for themselves?

Any senior would be an idiot to vote Republican in November. They're getting better, cheaper benefits under Obama's plan.

[DJ13]

1. They should have sent checks to all SS recipients

The COLA freeze is squeezing most recipients.

[dkf]

2. They should have sent a check to everyone. The economy sucks.

[Bitwit1234]

4. Why did 13 Democrats vote against that. IF

I ever move to a state where one of those scumbags are representing I will never never never vote for them. And I would send daily reminders.

[Greyhound]

3. Just another element of the Democratic strategy to help keep the republiks viable.

'Cause every political expert know that seniors don't vote and are sitting on vast piles of wealth.
:eyes:

[DURHAM D]

5. Seniors are just mad in general at the government.

No cost of living increase and a dough nut hole that should not exist at all and monthly payments for Medicare Part B that have gone up and up. They paid in and paid in and reach 65 and get to pay even more. The seniors have always been aware that what they were paying in during their work lives was for their parents. Now they have arrived at the point in the life where they should have the same benefits that their parents had and they get less for their investment.

Its just aimed at Obama because he is the head of the government.

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