A letter from Kathleen Sebelius

Real nice day out there.  Good for a leisurely walk up to the road to get the mail.  Got the usual ads for cable TV and such.  But I also got a letter from Kathleen Sebelius.  You know, that gal from Kansas that moved on up to Washington.  She's runnin' the Department of Health and Human Services now.


Well sir, it was a real nice letter.  4 pages long, in fact.  Nice glossy paper and all.  Sebelius said she was goin' to explain about that new national health care law that Congress passed.  Yep, reckon that needs some explaining.  'Course, you can't explain a law that was way over 2000 pages long in just 4 pages, so it was a little short on facts, if you know what I mean.  She done a lot of explaining, but she never did get 'round to some of my questions.  Maybe I'll just write her a letter.


She explained how this thing is gonna get paid for by "reducing fraud and waste."  That there is a good idea.  But I got a question, neighbor - Aren't them the same people that been running Medicare for the last 45 years?  Why ain't they fixed it before?   Don't think I can swallow that whopper.


There's other things I don't quite understand.  Like that "donut hole" thing.  A few years back Congress went and created that thing.  Wouldn't ya think it would be real easy for them to undo it?  Now this new law will "begin" to fix it.  'Course that's gonna take 10 years.  Why?


Another thing Congress did a while back was to create these "Medicare Advantage" Plans.  They was supposed to be better than regular ol' Medicare.  Congress even saw fit to give them insurance companies an extra $1000 a person just for all them extras.  Now the government says the 77% of seniors who did NOT sign up for those plans are paying way more than they're fair share.  So who messed it up in the first place?  Wasn't nobody 'round here, but you know what's gonna happen, right?


The President made a stink about folks "being denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions."  Well, I'm with him on that one, friend.  But how come it won't happen for FOUR YEARS?  Sure gives them insurance companies time to raise rates and come up with some other excuses to not pay-up.  A right easy way would be for them to "no longer offer that coverage."  Then folks would get to sign up for the government's (not really socialized medicine) plan.


As far as that goes, why is it there's a bunch of stuff that won't happen for 4 years?  Is that so nobody figures it out until after the next election?  Heck. There I go askin' all them questions again.  But what did you expect?  I am...
Justan O. Geezer


PS.  Sorry to rain on your parade Kathy.  Reckon you needed a longer letter.