It has already bequeathed millions of dollars in savings to seniors by closing the doughnut hole.
Will patients be confused by the morass of competing plans and the infamous doughnut hole?
And in the coming years, this law will close the doughnut hole completely once and for all.
WHITEHOUSE: Weekly Address: Medicare Officially Safer After Health Reform | The White House
Nearly 7 million people will end up in the doughnut hole next year, says the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Next year a 50 percent decrease in all of the brand-name drugs in the doughnut hole will go into effect.
WHITEHOUSE: The Affordable Care Act & The Patient��s Bill of Rights
And this year, seniors who fall in the coverage gap known as the doughnut hole will start getting some help.
The next major change will greatly assist those who fall within what is known as the Medicare Part D doughnut hole.
FORBES: Seniors To See Improved Health Care Benefits In 2011
That means that seniors, who now pay 100percent of their drug costs once they hit the doughnut hole, will pay 25 percent.
And you talk about the insurance reforms that are popular like children with preexisting conditions or the doughnut hole or caps and rescissions.
This year, seniors who fall in the coverage gap known as the doughnut hole will get some help to help pay for prescription drugs.
So the kind of feature that begins to phase out the doughnut hole, it starts next year and half of it will be gone.
WHITEHOUSE: The Affordable Care Act & The Patient��s Bill of Rights
And by 2020, this law will close the doughnut hole completely.
Other airlines have this same Doughnut Hole for Million Milers.
FORBES: Into The Million-Mile Frequent Flyer Doughnut Hole I Fall
There's closing the doughnut hole for seniors and prescription drugs.
The perverse result of frequent-flyer programs that award Million-Miler status is that they create a Doughnut Hole incentive for some of their best customers to fly on another airline.
FORBES: Into The Million-Mile Frequent Flyer Doughnut Hole I Fall
Both versions of the legislation would also address the so-called doughnut hole that leaves many Medicare recipients on the hook for prescription drug costs, although in slightly different ways.
Rather, the check is automatically mailed to the senior by Medicare once the prescription drug expenditures for doughnut hole recipients of Medicare reach the limit to qualify for the refund.
Preventive screenings, such as mammograms and colonoscopies, are now covered, and the "doughnut hole, " which causes many seniors to pay thousands of dollars for prescription drugs out of pocket, is being phased out.
And Congressman, I know that was a big issue in the House and one that people felt very strongly had to be part of the Affordable Care Act, getting rid of the doughnut hole.
WHITEHOUSE: The Affordable Care Act & The Patient��s Bill of Rights
My question is about the doughnut hole.
WHITEHOUSE: Tele-Town Hall: The Affordable Care Act & Seniors
We're going to close that doughnut hole.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks at the National Urban League Convention | The White House
Also, as many as seven million seniors could fall into this notorious gap in coverage in the benefit that's known as the doughnut hole, and that's going to happen right as the campaigns are heating up for the fall elections.
So you had this doughnut hole.
WHITEHOUSE: The Affordable Care Act & The Patient��s Bill of Rights
The doughnut hole will be gone.
WHITEHOUSE: Tele-Town Hall: The Affordable Care Act & Seniors
So essentially what we said is, how do we provide some immediate assistance to seniors who are falling into the doughnut hole, and then how do we ratchet down the cost to seniors each year so that by the time we get to 2020, the doughnut hole is completely eliminated?
WHITEHOUSE: Tele-Town Hall: The Affordable Care Act & Seniors
They are prey for the unscrupulous--from those peddling nonexistent coverage to pharmaceutical firms that offer cash or in-kind drug assistance specifically to lure old people to a particular plan or help push them out of the doughnut hole and into catastrophic coverage, so that Medicare picks up almost the whole tab.
But want to tell you directly: This proposal adds almost a decade of solvency to Medicare. (Applause.) This proposal would close the gap in prescription drug coverage, called the doughnut hole -- you know something about that -- that sticks seniors with thousands of dollars in drug costs.
So filling in that -- what's commonly known as -- ironically, in health care -- the doughnut hole, about -- that up to 50 percent of the name brand -- the price for that name brand drug would be paid for, and I think that provides a hefty discount that will bear appreciable benefits for seniors all over the country.
Especially since the number of doughnut-hole denizens will peak right around election time next year.
Imagine, by contrast, an elastic band that passes through the hole in a doughnut.
应用推荐