Today I received a mailer from something calling itself the “Alliance for Patient Access” which included a postcard that I was supposed to detach and send to my Senator in order to thank her for defending Medicare Part D. Apparently “bureaucrats” are plotting&planning changes that will force “millions of American seniors” to pay more for their prescription drug coverage (and no doubt cackling and rubbing their scaly hands in glee).
This causes my cynic-o-meter to ping wildly, because last I looked — which was admittedly some while back — Medicare Part D was primarily a mechanism for channeling public funds to pharmaceutical and/or insurance companies; any benefit to consumers was pretty much an afterthought. However, I can’t seem to craft a search which gives me meaningful information about AFPA or the purported changes.
So: anyone have such information, or a link to (relatively) unbiased source(s)? It’s pretty much an academic matter, since I refuse to submit canned material — on the rare occasion when I have a need to communicate with my Senatives or Representator, I craft it myself — but I confess to some curiosity.
As always, thanks in advance.