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CORRUPT POLITICS IN CLARK COUNTY TAKES A VERY SMALL HIT
Can you believe it? The motherly Mary Kincaid Chauncey isn’t the nice motherly
and so honest lady that we have all been lead to believe as we learned in the
case decided against her in of all things a wiggle pole joint scam. Many of us
over the years who were fighting for clean air could always count on Commissioner
Mary to be on the side of the developers and contractors that created so much of
the dirty brown cloud that just grew and grew. What was and is so dangerous about
that brown cloud is its combination of dirty un-burned diesel combined with desert
fine talcum powder dust that causes so much respiratory illness. This has been
and is a major health problem that can affect all of us including yours truly
after some 20 plus years of breathing this filthy air. What is so sad is that
real enforcement would have prevented that deadly brown cloud from ever being
in existence in the first place. The reason this is so deadly is that the
combination of diesel with the thousands of year’s old undisturbed talcum fine
dust can and most likely does carry many things bad for our health beyond our
imagination. In fact there is good likelihood that a lot of our undisturbed soil
could have carry over from even the most recent of things ,the explosions at the
test site. MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG “D” WILL IT FAIL OR BE FIXED?
What a shame that between the President and Congress nothing better could
have been made into law. The only saving thing about it is that we will be
able to have experience under the present plan and in a year or so for those
living maybe they/we can make the changes that need to be made. Out of
desperation I decided I didn’t have a clue on what to do. Over the months,
as I would purchase our prescription drugs at Sam’s Club, I continuously
inquired of the pharmacist on which plans were most people settling on. I
finally (surprise, surprise) got the answer that it was between Humana and
AARP. So before the deadline I went to the SHIP office (Nevada SHIP office
or State Health Insurance Assistance Program, 3100 W. Sahara,
Suite 110 Tel. 702 486 1001). I called the number and it took only a few
minutes wait before I had someone on the line and again (surprise, surprise)
I had an appointment a couple days out. When I got there I walked in the
door to a very small cramped place and before I knew what was going on David
said what can I do for you? I told him I needed help and handed him the copy
of both my wife’s and my prescriptions. He told me that, yes, Humana was
coming up pretty favorably in their office. So when he showed me something
on his computer screen after he typed in our information, guess what? It
turned out to be Humana. Because of the difference in our various prescriptions
my wife’s monthly charge is several times more than mine are. Also some drugs
are not covered and so far I find it is the least expensive ones, that make
little difference in our yearly cost. When I got home I got on the computer
and signed us both up with Humana. Between what I did by going to the SHIP
office and what I did on the computer at home it took only 12 days including
week ends to be able to buy our first prescription under this new program. I
will also say that Humana has been on the ball better than I have seen anyone
get something done like this in a very long time. Now let us hope that the
program works reasonably well once we are in it. The nice thing about it, if
there can be anything nice in spending more money, is that we will all be
able to make changes come November if we want to. I should also say that when
I went to the Sam’s Club Pharmacy to order the prescription the program did
work in a few seconds so it seems at least in our first experience it has
been a good one.
NEVADA SENIORS COALITION NEEDS YOU TO FIND NEW MEMBERS. We have such a fine thing going with you loyal members and I think we have very good meetings even if I say so myself and we certainly put out a very fine FOGHORN monthly news letter maybe second to none from what I see and on top of that we have a web page www.nevadaseniors.com that is a super fine, very informative and very easy to add more information to it any time we like. We are all getting older and even some of us are passing on to our maker as has happened to a few of our wonderful members that Vern will cover in the Foghorn from time to time so we need to replace ourselves Just as importantly we need to grow for the sake of being more of a force locally, state-wide and nationally. Remember we have no age limit to become members and our dues are only eight bucks a year which should be affordable for almost anyone — if not see me for a loan. By that I mean that I’ll introduce you to Knight Allen the money bags of the bunch. ILLEGAL ALIENS MARCH RIGHT BEHIND THE PIED PIPER TO THE SEA. For the Mexicana folks who so nobly marched down our streets in our cities there is no easy way to come into this country. Immigrants must earn the way into our country. And I must take umbrage with those who are still calling us a nation of immigrants. That has not been true for at least 100 or more years that I know of. The 12,000,000 in question are illegal which does not make it a nation of immigrants. In the Midwest, where my parents and grandparents were born, we all go back 175 years or more so really not a nation of immigrants but a nation of Red blooded American born citizens. |
