Three million seniors—roughly 20% of those enrolled in stand-alone drug plans—won’t be able to keep their current plan. Some of seniors’ drug plans will be eliminated as “Medicare tries to winnow down duplicative and confusing coverage, in order to offer consumers more meaningful choices.” But what ‘more meaningful choice’ really means is fewer choices. Read More Here.
Companies are cutting healthcare costs further amid a continuing sour economy, scaling back benefits and shifting a greater share of the expense to employees. Read More Here.
Now that I’ve depressed you with the state of our health care system, enjoy They Cheered My Yarmulke at Beck’s Rally by Rabbi Aryeh Spero. It really uplifted me!
"The people who attended want nothing but to love, honor and identify with America. They ask nothing from America; rather delight in giving to her, offering even their children in the military so as to defend us. They identify with the Judeo-Christian ethos and, as do I, define America in those terms. They see their country being taken from them by an elitist corps intent on stripping it of its historic character, transforming us into a placid, non-distinct Europe, and consigning us and our values to second-class status, replacing nationalism with transnationalism." Read More Here.
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Posted by Tina Cozby
Sep 03, 2010