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- Bye Bye Canadian Drugs and AARP
- By James Boyne
- OpEdNews.com
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- In case you haven’t noticed it on the provisions in the new
Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit law is a provision that will allow
the Bush Administration to decree that all drugs from Canada are
“unsafe” and therefore all drugs imported from Canada to Americans
will be prohibited. So if you are one of the many people that rely on
saving hundreds of dollars a month on the exact same drugs that
Americans pay double and triple for here in the U.S., you can say bye
bye to prescription drugs from Canada.
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- I just cancelled my AARP membership for it’s outrageous betrayal
of the very (over 50 years old) group that it pretends to represent.
The bill has already passed Congress so the only thing that can stop
this bill is the Senate. If you haven’t called your Senator you
better do it quick and demand that he vote against this selling out of
the Medicare system to the pharmaceutical and health insurance
industry by President Bush.
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- If you belong to AARP you should seriously consider canceling your
membership. AAA Auto Club offers just as many, if not more, benefits
to seniors and even more discounts on various products and services;
and they don’t have anti-senior, pro-big corporation agenda like
AARP. All AARP does is send out a magazine with articles pretending to
be sticking up for the rights of seniors, when in fact the have an
ulterior motive of being the quasi-insurance business. They have shown
their true colors. Besides, if you live within driving distance of
Canada, AAA Auto Club would come in handy if you can make the trek to
Canada by car, to get your prescription drugs at half price. But who
knows, maybe Bush will want to spend $300 billion to beef up the
Canadian border patrol to catch seniors sneaking across the Canadian
border with their banned
osteoporosis medication.
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- That sounds like a typical Bush Republican strategy----the hell with
the Mexican border—let’s close down the Canadian border. Canada is
a dangerous country. It sells prescription drugs at half the price the
pharmaceutical companies sell them to Americans in America (the exact
same drugs from the exact same companies). Yes, “my fellow
Americans, that makes sense. We need to protect Americans from the
dangerous Canadians”.
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- It took our politicians over ten years to come up with this scheme.
This bill has been debated for ten years. That is more time than it
took to complete JFK’s vision of “sending a man to the moon and
have him return safely”. The entire Republican party---Federal,
State and Local should be swept from office as the penalty for this
sellout of the Federal Medicare program.
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- The bill is so complicated and interwoven with favors to the
pharmaceutical and health insurance industry that it defies being
understood by almost anyone, much less a senior. Seniors, who have
been betrayed, will be baffled, bewildered, and befuddled by what they
are in store for. Many will actually be paying more. And you can be
sure the drug companies are itching to ratchet up the price of their
drugs as quick as they can in order to cash in on the billion dollar
bonanza that awaits them.
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- One wonders how many seniors will die clutching in their hand an
empty prescription drug bottle, staring in wonderment about what
happened to the affordable or free prescription drugs they thought
they were being promised by the nice politicians that were all
shouting at them from the TV screen.
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- President Bush has
already raised $200 million from his corporate supporters for favors
and special interests that are about to destroy our economy. Once this
bill is enacted, if you are a retiree or about to retiree, you will
find that your employer has suddenly found it profitable, and sensible
to drop your employer based prescription drug based plan also.
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- The entire Republican backed bill is a scam and a sham of deceit and
deception. The $400 billion cost will be borne by the taxpayers and
the money will end up in the pockets and coffers of the CEO’s and
stockholders of the drug and health insurance industry.
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- James Boyne
- dboyne@aol.com
- 843-216-1811
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- James Boyne is a satirical, political freelance writer and has five
other articles published on www.opednews.com.
He has previously been a diehard, staunch, conservative Republican who
has voted for Goldwater, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I and Bush II, and
now has made a 180 degree turnabout and supports the candidacy of
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), who appears to have the
most integrity, honesty, common sense, straightforwardness,
enthusiasm, optimism, and “fire in the belly” to be possibly the
best President in recent memory. He is a progressive, populist,
liberal, Democrat and is a man of principal, intelligence and
experience. Mr. Kucinich comes from a humble background and
clearly spells out his positions on issues on his web site www.kucinich.us
so there is no question where he stands on issues.
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- **It is the responsibility of all Americans to vote. You should know
where all the candidates stand on different issues; why they believe
what they do; how they plan on carrying out their plans (rather than
just empty promises); and get a sense for their character, honesty,
commitment, integrity and their vision for America and for the world.
You should know what their background is. How did they get to where
they are now. Know their life, and you will know them.
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- Other Articles By James Boyne:
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Booosh: We Are In A Pickle
- 36
Reasons To Vote For Bush
- Whoops!
Billion Dollar Cancer Drug Found to Cause Cancer To Spread and Hasten
Death
- Bush:
The Greatest Liberal of the Century
- "So
Rush Just Wanted A Rush"---the Media Gives Rush Limbaugh a Break
- Was I
Globalized or Circumcized? (What It's Really Like To Get Laid Off)
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