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CARDED

We got our Medicare D Supplemental Drug Coverage cards just in the nick of time!

They came yesterday.

So starting the first of the year (tomorrow) we will be on the dole.

I have friends in the drug store business who are all crouched and grimacing at the prospect of taking these cards and making it work next week.

We loaded up on our medications, such as they are, to allow a few weeks before we 'have to' go in and join the flail.

I was, and remain, cynical about the entire enterprise but I was not willing to stand outside and look in the windows. It will be better coverage than we have or can buy at present at about the same cost as far as I can tell. This is because I am buying coverage in which there will be no deductible ever; no hole in the donut.

There is no way to make comparisons objectively about this. We could have joined 40-50 separate plans. We chose down the middle on cost with Blue Cross because they have great service and we have always used them.

When you call them, a real person answers before the third or fourth ring! Yes!!!

That gets a few extra dollars from us right there.