Reader comments: Many Utahns are unaware prescription help is available

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Bob G | 6:00 a.m. Aug. 13, 2008
The numbers are exagerated and if there are qualifed individuals why don't they just tell them and start giving them these benefits? If you have ever had to deal with any SSA office it is a nightmare where everyone is treated disrespectfully. Then to get this service, maybe, you need to pay and excessive Medicare part D insurance cost. The insurance usually cost more than the amount one gets in SSA benefits. Social Security has become a none service agency to those that have paid in to it their entire lives. Illegal foreign nationals paying no taxes into medicare get more out of the SSA and medicare than a tax paying citizen. Then the level of SSA benefits is far below poverty levels that most can't afford the Part D insurance and not have to eat cat food to survive. A poverty sticken person can't afford the insurance so they can't get any of these other benefits, it's pure bunk and misleading the public about the real SSA group. If you have your own cheaper health insurance you can't qualify either. Social Security, medicare, and medicaid are a joke as our congress steals our retirement to fund welfare to illegals.
Keep the secret | 10:14 a.m. Aug. 13, 2008
Better not to get out the word so people don't take more money from a system that's already projected to cost trillions of dollars in the near future. Why are we so dependent on government to take care of us? Let's learn to take care of ourselves.

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