{"id":698,"date":"2006-09-15T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/the-black-doughnut-hole-is-coming-soon"},"modified":"2006-09-15T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T22:40:00","slug":"the-black-doughnut-hole-is-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/the-black-doughnut-hole-is-coming-soon","title":{"rendered":"The black [doughnut] hole is coming soon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many rants so little time&#8230;but here is one for today&#8230;that Medicare Part D[umb,angerous,eceptive] doughnut hole&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned  this hole before and do believe it was planned with the specific end results in mind&#8230;why else was it included?<\/p>\n<p>Soon &#8211; like next week &#8211; many who signed up for Part D will start reaching the prescription cost amount where their coverage STOPS. They must continue to pay monthly for Part D even though they also have to pay for the next $3000 of the cost of their prescriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Why was this put in? Duh&#8230;because the legislation was written by the pharmaceuticals and although I have not yet done the research, I am guessing that a majority of people spend between $2,000 and $5000 on medications and so that became a good gap so that the drug kings could make the maximum profit while not having to offer any discounts and still collecting the monthly fees.<\/p>\n<p>What will seniors do?  Many will have to make choices between meds and food or meds and rent or meds and other necessities.<br \/>Do the repugs really want this? My answer is YES &#8211; or they would NOT HAVE ENACTED PART D&#8230;Think about that when you vote this November&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many rants so little time&#8230;but here is one for today&#8230;that Medicare Part D[umb,angerous,eceptive] doughnut hole&#8230; I&#8217;ve mentioned this hole before and do believe it was planned with the specific end results in mind&#8230;why else was it included? Soon &#8211; like next week &#8211; many who signed up for Part D will start reaching the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}