To the editor:
The cost of my life-saving prescriptions is about $127 per month. To some that is not much, but for me, it's a big chunk out of my very limited monthly income. Having purchased another round this morning, and being Medicare-eligible, I thought I might acquire one of the Bush administration's much touted new "drug cards" and maybe save 10 or 20 bucks.
A few minutes later I was in touch with the Social Security Administration, answering a battery of questions read off so rapidly (and by an employee who was only marginally literate) that I was unsure of most of the questions until they were read again. At long last I was told that if I signed up for the least expensive card I could acquire these very same drugs for only $397, just $270 more than I now pay, out-of-pocket at rip-off retail prices. Wow! What a deal!
That experience now in the past, I wish to take a moment to thank the Bush administration for its compassion and generosity. I also wish to thank those who voted for him Nov. 2, and who assured us of four more years of this scam. Who will survive another four years of this smoke and bells folly? I'm very certain that many will, in this great country of unequaled wealth and power. I am equally suspicious that I may not be among them.
Dick Walker,
Baldwin
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