States consider cutting drug help for seniors

Just brilliant. :eyes:

Perhaps with not having enough money to eat or buy meds; we will do the decent thing and start dying off quicker.

"PAWTUCKET, R.I. - Joanne Devlin needs about 20 prescription drugs to regulate her blood pressure, keep her arthritic joints limber and pain-free and control her asthma.

She counts on financial help from Rhode Island when her Medicare Part D insurance plan maxes out and no longer pays her drug bills, which can reach $3,000 every three months. But that state help may no longer be an option after Jan. 1.

The financial crisis has grown so severe that lawmakers in Rhode Island and five other states have debated whether to cut or reduce the state funding that helps seniors and disabled people like Devlin buy their drugs.

Devlin, 62, who lives off about $10,000 a year, worries she may need to stop taking her arthritis medication to make ends meet. She stocks shelves and helps distribute food as a volunteer at a Salvation Army food shelter..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30966094/

How simple is that to figure out?

In some countries, this could never happen.

In some countries, senior citizens are treated as special people, honored, taken very good care of.

In some countries, people don't have to choose between food and medicine.

In some countries, pharmaceutical companies don't own the lawmakers .........................

and bailing out states and citizens -- not Wall Street!

How many Doctors has she seen?

and have a decent quality of life. Start by cutting the salaries and prescription plans for the RI lawmakers.