President Obama will be visiting Columbus on Friday (USA Today).
>>>Senior citizens have something to look for in the coming days.
Bignews:
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and U.S. Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (OH-15) visited St. Stephen's Community House in Columbus today to outline how the new health care law will provide immediate assistance to an estimated 156,000 Ohio seniors when they reach the "donut hole."
...Eligible Ohio seniors who fall into the donut hole will start receiving $250 checks as soon as Monday thanks to the new health care law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Seniors who qualify will automatically receive the checks and do not need to sign up.
Starting next year, Medicare seniors in the donut-hole will receive a 50 percent discount on prescription drugs and coverage will increase until 2020, when 75 percent coverage on all drugs purchased will eliminate the donut hole. Additionally, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will maintain and improve Medicare benefits for seniors by providing seniors with free physicals and low or no-cost preventive services like screenings and colonoscopies. The law includes incentives for care coordination to improve health care quality and to better spend the more than 90 percent of Medicare dollars spent on treating chronic conditions....
That certainly is good news.
**** Cincinnati.com has some news about the U.S. Senate race between Democrat Lee Fisher and Republican Rob Portman:
....When Republican Rob Portman went on the air last week with an ad touting his job creation plan and his on-going tour of Ohio factories, the campaign of Democrat Lee Fisher- which, unlike Portman, doesn’t have the dollars just yet for a full-blown early TV ad campaign – answered with a web ad that blasts Portman’s years in Congress and in the administration of George W. Bush, making the argument that Portman cost Ohio jobs. You can see the web ad here....
Portman will always be associated as Bush's budget director and we all know what a mess they created.
(Portman estará siempre asociado como director de presupuesto de Bush y todos sabemos lo que es un lío que ha creado.)
Fisher web ad on You Tube: