My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
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I'm concerned about heart disease. I've raised money to fight heart disease; my dad died of it.
The bottom line is, until we're helping people to stop smoking, screening for breast cancer, giving Pap smears, giving prenatal care to pregnant women, we should not go into publicly paying for the artificial heart, which will benefit at great cost only a few people.
We ought to follow through on an idea that was first proposed by President Clinton to allow people over the age of 55 who are not eligible for Medicare into the Medicare system, at cost, and below cost for those who can't afford it. That takes care of a significant number of the people who don't have health insurance.
As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.
Retirees who are on Medicare will suffer the consequences of 700 billions of Medicare dollars instead being used to cover the skyrocketing cost of Obamacare. In essence, less dollars for seniors means less service. Not fair. The Boomers are going to take the 'hit.' In Obamacare, 'too old' has limitations of service.
We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women.
If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.
It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.
I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.