Politics

New Health Care Provisions Begin to Pay Off for All Ages

By Wendell Potter

Originally published on September 22, 2010 in Health Care and Tennessee Voices.

As I sit beside my 92-year-old father in his hos­pi­tal bed in Kingsport, Tennessee, there are reminders all around me of why I left my job in the insur­ance indus­try to become an advo­cate for health-care reform ? and why all Amer­i­cans have rea­sons to be grate­ful that many pro­vi­sions of the reform bill that became law six months ago are tak­ing effect now.

To begin with, there is my dad him­self. He must take costly med­ica­tions every day. This year he and mil­lions of other older Amer­i­cans fell into the Medicare Part D ?dough­nut hole.? They have to spend thou­sands of dol­lars for med­i­cines they need before their drug ben­e­fit will kick back in. The new law has already begun to reduce their phar­macy expenses.

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Full post as published by PR Watch on September 23, 2010 (boomark / email).