PORT ANGELES — Senior citizens unhappy with changes in federal Medicare called on U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell on Friday to repeal a Medicare prescription drug bill signed into law last year.
“We not only see it as a flawed bill, but possibly even an immoral bill,” Connie Kay, representing a group of about 15 seniors, told the senator during a town hall discussion on Medicare. “The seniors have been thrown to the wolves.”
Kay was one of several people who voiced opposition to the bill, and Cantwell, D-Mountlake Terrace, said she agreed that the legislation is flawed.
“I think that the key issue here is that we need to change this plan,” she said. Cantwell said she would work to have the law repealed.
About 100 people, almost all of them senior citizens, packed a room at the Port Angeles Senior Center Friday morning to discuss health care with Cantwell.
The town meeting was her 12th community discussion on the topic in Western Washington since December. She continued to Port Townsend Friday afternoon for a similar discussion with Jefferson County seniors.
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The rest of the story appears in Sunday’s Peninsula Daily News.
