A Warning to the RepubliKLAN party and the major pharmacy chains about Medicare.

I sent the following letter to Represenative Burgess of Texas after he made his blowhard speech Friday Jan 12, 2007 on how the private sector does bring products and services to elderly and disabled people best. Not a chance Mr. Burgess, you blowhard.


Mr. Burgess

If I want Pizza, or a car, or motorcycle or a swimming pool, or a radio I will rely on the private sector and the government will make sure private companies make safe products.

But when it comes to delivering health care, or retirement benefits, or disability benefits to elderly and disabled people, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon Baines Johnson, I trust them and not your Hooverite Social Darwinist Republican Bretheren.


You should have gotten born around 1900, then you would have loved to have lived in the 1920's when Coolidge, Harding and Hoover served as President. Your Republican version of capitalism has ended back in the 1930's when the people of America soundly rejected Hooverite Republicanism and elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Today, elderly and disabled people can go to the Doctor and pay 20 percent of the cost of a doctors visit covered by Medicare Part B with 90 dollar a month premiums and 125 dollar a year deductible. People do not have private insurance companies administer this doctors visit benefit. The government does it quite well. The government reimburses the doctor with an approved level of income for the services to elederly and disabled people.

Now that's what the congress should have done. Congress should have merely put the prescription drug benefit into Medicare Part B, allowing elderly and disabled people to pay 20 percent flat of the cost of prescription drugs at the pharmacy counter and then the pharmacies would get reimbursed an approved level of income for the medications dispensed. No extra premium should have gotten charged and no 250 dollar deductible should have gotten charged as people already pay premiums for Medicare Part B.

Elderly and disabled people do not have the level of purchasing power of most working people or of wealthy people in general. The Democratic Party with the leadership of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the greatest President since 1932 decided that government would help elderly and disabled people. The private sector still exists for working people and wealthy people.

Do not subject elderly and disabled people to the private sector alone when it comes to medical care. The government should take care of elderly and disabled people. This Medicare part D appears junk. Millions of elderly and disabled people have not joined this program because after we looked at the plans and taking into account the extra monthly premiums and deductibles and coverage gap in Part D in addition to the Medicare Part B we already pay alot of people saw that they would actually lose money.

You can take your 1920's Hooverite Republican economic policies and keep them to yourself Mr. Burgess.

I will see to it that the prescription drug benefit goes into Part B covering 80 percent of medication cost flat without means tests so that every elderly and disabled person will get the same 80 percent coverage and only have to pay 20 percent of drug cost.

I consider you a LIAR and I don't trust you nor do I trust most Republicans on this issue of helping elderly and disabled people. 80 percent approval rate of medicare part D? That appears a lie and that most of the 80 percent appears the former Medicaid beneficiaries that already had medication coverage before you hijacked them into Medicare part D to hide the fact that social security retirement beneficiaries and social security disability beneficiaries who did not have this prescription drug benefit would have to pay extra premiums, deductibles, copayments and the coverage gap full price of the medication and in the end get no better than a 20 percent discount on increased drug prices which amounts to insignificance.

But that 80 percent approval only applies to people who actually joined the program. The millions of people who did not join the program because they saw the meagerness of it have regular social security retirement and social security disability incomes of a $13,000 a year or more, hardly a wealthy income and these people would have gotten means tested out of the cushy benefit that the former Medicaid beneficiaries got for full coverage.

Most of these people by operational definition disapprove of the travesty Medicare Part D people like you forced into law despite the disapproval of the plan you did not heed because your interest does not lie with people like myself.

It appears people like you Mr. Burgess for the reason I never considered joining the Republiklan party nor voting for Republiclowns as your party appears a sad group of heartless incompassionate people despite your protests otherwise.

I believe in Capitalism, but not your Hooverite Republican vision and practice of capitalism and social darwinism.

I have a warning for you Mr. Burgess. I and millions of other people will not buy another consumer product from Eckerd, CVS, Walgreens and Walmart pharmacies and also will not buy our medications from these pharmacies until congress and the president makes the presciption drug benefit cover 80 percent like a doctors visit and the benfit placed into Medicare Part B and the means test of part B that you snuck into the 2003 law repealed as well. We realize that Eckerd, CVS, Walgreens and Walmart each give huge amounts of money to the Republiclown party and their Republiclown candidates, Mr. Burgess.

and I have a warning for other companies in other product sectors, Citizens will unionize informally and boycott for things like a $10 an hour minimum wage, and vote by mail with paper ballots, an end to the occupation of Iraq after the heinous and illegal unprovoked invasion so you better go along with our demands or you just might find hundreds of thousands of people not buying your products until congress and the president does what we want legislatively.

With Doctors like you, who needs Dr. Josef Mengele.

As one would have said in "West Side Story" Officer Krupke, Krupp you.

and sending in as a LTTE?

Really, we all need to be working hard at edumakating the populace. So many just don't know what can be done.

I hope you will consider this!

Burgess never has to worry about health care. He gets a golden medical plan through Congress, and as a doctor, probably knows enough "buddies" to treat him.

The people have been fed so much misinformation about how uncontrolled capitalism through competition can give us everything. There are some things that just aren't going to happen without major government involvement.

Hold the pharmacy chains accountable. As for making the letter shorter I said what I said in the length of the letter that I could. if people will copy this letter and place it in public places and tell people to call these pharmacies and other companies and make demands of them we could move a mountain. Martin Luther King Junior would do no less.