• Require that Medicare negotiate the cheapest possible prices for drugs with the pharmaceutical companies;
  
  
• Eliminate the "Donut Hole" that will add crippling costs to many seniors;
  
  
• Offer a prescription drug plan to seniors directly through Medicare that does not require they join private plans;
  
  
• End the "bait and switch" provisions that allow private insurance plans to drop coverage for specific drugs while seniors are locked into the plan;
  
  
• Reopen an enrollment period so that millions of seniors will not be locked out of help for prescription drug costs -- and drop the penalty for joining after May 15.

  
  

PLEASE RSVP at this link and make the commitment to coming out on the 20th.  Remember, we'll be lobbying Rep. Fitzpatrick for real reform of a confusing and crony-driven Part D as well as celebrating Medicare's 41st birthday and our democracy.

What: Medicare D-Day on Medicare's B-Day

When: 9:15am Saturday, JULY 29

Where: One Oxford Vally, Suite 800 located in the Oxford Valley Mall - we will gather on the side of the building that faces the JC Penney parking lot

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Why: to lobby Congressman Fitzpatrick to fix Medicare's Prescription drug benefit

cross-posted, as all these countdown posts are, at dKos, Oped News, boomantribune