Skip a Letter to Santa, I'm Writing to Bernie Sanders

It’s Christmas holiday season and until today I pretty much was in the spirit. I baked and made appetizer tortes for the family gathering. I tried my hand at making colorful pomegranate martinis (and I drank quite a few). It was great until I got the mail and information about our new medicare advantage plan and being penalized because neither my husband nor I need expensive medications. We have to pay a penalty of nearly thirty bucks a month! Bernie Sanders, please get elected and get national medical coverage started in this backwards country, the United States of America. The only “civilized”, industrial leader not providing citizens with health care! Dear Bernie, please do something about medicare and social security benefits. How did our congress vote to give themselves a cost of living raise and not provide for seniors?

I know about the cost of gas business but that makes no sense for seniors. Food prices go up and medication costs go up. Those things matter to seniors but gas prices! I use public transportation.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/15/retirement/social-security-benefits-cola/

Despite working fairly decent jobs for a few years none of my employers had to pay me retirement. My husband has a similar story. We are reduced to social security benefits. We had medicare parts A and B but apparently we didn’t sign up for D and so even though our combined prescription needs are less than $20 per month we should have signed up for medication benefits. Since we didn’t, we now have a penalty. Does this make any sense at all????

Now in addition to medicare being deducted we get another deduction for not needing medication. Please Bernie make the wealthy pay their taxes. Stop this country from penalizing the less fortunate and dooming us retirees to subsistence living. We worked but just don’t make enough from social security to have even a marginally comfortable retirement. Forget living in a retirement community with a golf course. We can’t afford food or needed prescriptions.

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