Help others get the message = help yourself and family too!

I hope it's ok to post this with the attached email note.  We all receive a lot of info via email but this is important.

You see, my 50 year old Brother-in-Law is currently undergoing chemo and radiation for throat cancer.

After a few months wait, he will have his left leg cut off below the knee due to diabetes and a leg injury.

He is a former vet w/limited funds.

My Sister told me a few days ago that they have fallen into the "doughnut hole".  It's real and happening NOW.  

If you think this can't happen to YOU - you are mistaken.

My personal interpretation : this is a SH*T HOLE.

"We the people" must wake up and start becoming involved - if not now, when?
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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."  M.L. King, Jr.

Please consider signing this - hopefully it will help him and many, many others who find themselves in unfortunate situations.  

Generations of my family and yours have fought wars for our FREEDOMS - we must also fight back at home to KEEP OUR FREEDOMS and DO THE RIGHT THING.

Thank you.
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FW: Pay Attention

Today in America, large numbers of senior citizens can't get vital medications because the Administration's faulty and confusing Medicare Part D prescription drug plan has failed them.

Meanwhile, the Republican Congress looks the other way. Last week, you and I had to stand up against their attempt to write bigotry into the Constitution through their so-called Federal Marriage Amendment. We won that argument, but lost another opportunity to deal with the nation's real priorities, such as the prescription drug crisis plaguing millions of Americans on Medicare every day.

If Republicans take no action, millions of Americans who paid for the Medicare prescription drug benefit in good faith face the shock of having to pay out of pocket for their life-saving medications after paying their premiums in full. That's an outrage, and we can't wait any longer to correct it. Join me in co-sponsoring legislation to end this emergency immediately.

http://www.tedkennedy.com/...

The Bush Administration made a colossal blunder in creating the badly flawed Medicare Part D program. They allowed the law to be written by drug and insurance company lobbyists for the benefit of the pharmaceutical industry and the insurance industry, not seniors. They rammed it through the rubber-stamp GOP Congress and even threatened to fire a government employee to keep him from revealing the truth about how much the program would cost.

Here's the worst part: To hold the cost of the benefit down, Republicans invented an absurd "doughnut hole" - a large gap in coverage after it reaches a certain level. Millions of Americans who signed up for the plan are about to tumble into that gap.

Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan) and I have introduced legislation to protect seniors in the "doughnut hole" from a brutal choice: paying for drugs they urgently need, or paying for rent and groceries and hoping for the best. Our bill will end the "doughnut hole" once and for all, and cover the full cost of prescription drugs.

We can't keep ignoring a crisis like this. The health of millions of senior citizens hangs in the balance, and Republicans won't lead. Join me in cosponsoring legislation to end the Medicare "doughnut hole!"

http://www.tedkennedy.com/...

Republicans even wasted precious time on another preposterous issue. They tried again to repeal the estate tax - which would have cost the Treasury a hundred billion dollars a year and benefited no one but the super-rich, the richest of the rich.

The hypocrisy of giving the very wealthiest Americans a huge new tax break while they ignore the Medicare Part D debacle speaks volumes about Republican priorities. Seniors can't afford this failed agenda any longer. Stand with me now and cosponsor our legislation to save Americans from the Medicare "doughnut hole!"

http://www.tedkennedy.com/...

Yours for the nation's senior citizens,

Senator Edward M. Kennedy