President Obanas reply,
January 20, 2012
Dear Friend:
Thank you for writing. I have heard from many Americans about issues affecting older Americans. Today's economic climate further intensifies the unique challenges faced by seniors, and I appreciate your perspective.
My Administration continues to support older Americans encountering unfair treatment, financial hardship, or difficulty obtaining health care. The historic Affordable Care Act strengthens Medicare by providing free preventive care and improving care coordination. It gradually closes the "donut hole gap" in prescription drug coverage, and provides individuals who fall into this gap a $250 rebate. This law also helps prevent and eliminate elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
Additionally, the Affordable Care Act implements unprecedented measures to fight waste and fraud, and to improve the quality and outcomes of care for Medicare beneficiaries. It ends unwarranted subsidies to private insurance companies, and takes important steps to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions, improve patient safety, modernize payment systems, and streamline record-keeping. It also realigns incentives to reward medical providers for the value, not the volume, of their care. For resources and information on how to prevent, report, and stop Medicare fraud, visit: www.StopMedicareFraud.gov. To learn more about the Affordable Care Act, please visit: www.HealthCare.gov.
By protecting Social Security from risky privatization plans, we are preserving its solvency and maintaining it as a reliable income source for seniors. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act included an additional payment to supplement Social Security benefits for seniors struggling to make ends meet, and I have called on Congress to extend this relief again. Together, we will ensure all our citizens, not just a privileged few, can retire with dignity and security.
Finally, as we work to keep America's promises to senior citizens, we are helping ensure older Americans can continue to enrich communities across our Nation through service and community involvement. By expanding the Senior Corps and implementing the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, we are creating more opportunities for seniors to share their knowledge and experience with younger generations.
Thank you again for being in touch. To find assistance for senior citizens and their families, visit www.Eldercare.gov or call 1-800-677-1116. For help with Medicare, call 1-800-MEDICARE. Additional information and resources are available at: www.usa.gov/Topics/Seniors.shtml.
Sincerely,
Barack Obama
My reply to him
If this were an archery contest your arrow would noteven havee hit the target. I did multi billion dollar contracts in DC, I worked inside and in senior management designing programs for the goveernment. Let me point out the areas where you bowed to special interest, and will HURT seniors.
Fraud and Waste: You say: Additionally, the Affordable Care Act implements unprecedented measures to fight waste and fraud, and to improve the quality and outcomes of care for Medicare beneficiaries. What this really means is Doctors will now be even more afraid to take on medicare patitents, and will prescribe less and less of the medications (usually controlled substances) needed to make it comfortably to the end of their libes....
Quality of Care: You say: Additionally, the Affordable Care Act implements unprecedented measures to fight waste and fraud, and to improve the quality and outcomes of care for Medicare beneficiaries. It ends unwarranted subsidies to private insurance companies, and takes important steps to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions, improve patient safety, modernize payment systems, and streamline record-keeping Now Doctors will be afraid to admit pwole who need admission, Is the goal to kill off the older Americans? Becuase this portion of the Act will kill Millions. Admission is almost NEVER frivolous, that is a statistic the insurance companies and risk managers have targeted, it is a lie.
Value vs Volume: You Say: It also realigns incentives to reward medical providers for the value, not the volume, of their care. The doctors are barely surviing now on the pitance handed out by Medicare, now your are takin gsome away, expect less doctors and a higher death reate.
Presription Drugs You Say: It gradually closes the "donut hole gap" in prescription drug coverage, and provides individuals who fall into this gap a $250 rebate. Really 250 to a few? that is one drug, one prescription. ehy noy bsil ud out, send us a portion of te billions, it eould immediately fix the eceonomy and stop our seniors from starving to death.
Seniors working You say: we are helping ensure older Americans can continue to enrich communities across our Nation through service and community involvement. This really means, now you MUST work until you die.
Get your head out of the millionaires club. They are lying and do not have any grip on the reality of life.