MyCare: Helen R. in Philadelphia, PA
Featuring people like Helen, who are seniors on Medicare who receive preventive services, MyCare is an initiative to educate Americans about new programs, benefits, and rights under the health care law.
Helen-Care: Free Preventive Services Through Medicare and Prescription Drug Discounts
Helen: I do have more peace of mind with the Health Care Reform.
I’m gonna get some good numbers right? Perfect.
Doctor: Hopefully, yes.
Helen: The Act is helping me as a Senior because I know that I can get certain screenings and medications without having to break the bank.
And I can go ahead and get my examinations, screenings on time and get my evaluations and results so that I can take care of any illness that might be arising.
Doctor: I’ve seen the availability of some preventative care that patients maybe couldn’t otherwise afford or even thought were important, such as mammograms, flu shots, colonoscopies all of those things play an important role in keeping people healthy.
Grandson: How are you?
Helen: All right, and you?
Granddaughter: Grandmom.
Helen: I am a Grandmother who is trying to assist a Grandson with his education.
(Sound: Pills)
I take seven different medications, getting the "donut hole" closed that gives me a little more money in my pocket.
Helen (speaking off camera): Patrice, I have a message for you.
I work at a Senior Center, I have been working there now for nearly six years. I do get energized at work.
Helen (speaking off camera): So you’ve been having trouble with your back, how are you feeling?)
I have to set up workshops, programs that will help them with their health and wellness. So many of them are so much older than I am and their spirits are so high. When I see that it picks me up.
If it weren’t for Health Care Reform many of our Seniors would not get to a doctor or get mammograms.
It is expensive for us to keep good health. Health Care Reform will help us so much to know we can get certain things at a cheaper cost, a lower cost or no cost at all. The health care law is about people like me.
NOTE: The transcript for this program may have been compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.
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