One option is to join a Prescription Drug Plan (PDP), which covers prescription medication only.
The majority of Part D beneficiaries are in the former category, the Prescription Drug Plan.
There are just six days left for Medicare beneficiaries to enroll in the new prescription drug plan.
And he cited tax cuts, prescription drug plan that was not paid for, wars as well not paid for.
It's been three months since senior citizens began signing up for the federal government's ambitious Medicare prescription drug plan.
Individuals who decide to dis enroll also might need a new Medicare prescription drug plan to maintain their prescriptions.
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Confusion over the prescription drug plan is just one of many challenges facing Medicare and the seniors who depend on it.
So when Medicare Part D was introduced last fall, pharmacist Jennifer Phillips changed gears and began counseling patients on the new prescription drug plan.
Republicans hope Roth's temporary, targeted prescription drug plan could help them on the campaign trail, where the issue ranks well atop many voters' priority lists.
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You had a prescription drug plan -- the biggest entitlement plan, by the way, in several decades -- that was passed without it being paid for.
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The House earlier this year passed a GOP-backed Medicare prescription drug plan that encourages private insurance companies to provide the benefit with the incentive of government-provided subsidies.
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The new Medicare prescription drug plan may cut retail margins, but Walgreen offsets that by snagging the contract to sell Medicare prescriptions to managed-care giant UnitedHealth Group's plan.
Bradley also called Gore the "Co-opt Kid, " referring to a prescription drug plan for seniors the vice president unveiled yesterday that closely resembles a plan Bradley proposed last year.
By making a prescription drug plan a centerpiece of his domestic policy, Gore virtually ensures there would be enough money to pay for it as long as he is president.
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Senate Democrats, who currently control the chamber, have a very different prescription-drug plan for Medicare.
You must also choose a Part D prescription-drug plan if you want drug coverage under the traditional Medicare Part A and B program.
Mr Ensign's ideas on Social Security and public education look remarkably similar to George W. Bush's, and Mr Bernstein's prescription-drug plan comes straight from the Gore book.
And while the veep is getting his daily health-care headline with this week's Florida get-out-the-seniors-vote tour, Bush has been mired in number-crunching his own tax cut and wondering whether Dick Cheney could maybe try to grab some headlines that don't involve the campaign's lack of a prescription-drug plan.
These may gain strength when a prescription-drug benefit plan is finally approved.
Lucas votes with the White House more than almost any other Democrat in the House, and he backed Bush's tax cut and his plan for a Medicare prescription drug benefit.
Lucas votes with the White House more than almost any other Democrat in the House, and he backed Bush's tax cut and the president's plan for a Medicare prescription drug benefit.
On Tuesday, the FDA said its decision was in response to an amended marketing plan from the drug's maker, Teva Pharmaceuticals, to sell Plan B without a prescription to women 15 and older.
In April, 2011, as part of its comprehensive plan to address the epidemic of prescription drug abuse, the Obama Administration called for training prescribers in proper use of ER and LA opioid analgesics.
This book is a sobering reminder of just how much the Bush team has got wrong: from the failure to veto a single spending bill, however pork-laden, to the crass recklessness of serially cutting taxes while introducing the biggest expansion of a government entitlement programme in decades the inclusion of prescription-drug coverage in Medicare, the government health plan for the elderly.
The new FDA plan is the latest step in a multi-agency Federal effort to address prescription drug abuse, a major public health problem in the United States.
But Ms. Sebelius said the data submitted on the drug didn't prove it was appropriate for girls to take Plan B without a prescription, and she overruled the agency to block the decision.
Plan B has been controversial since 1999 when it first was approved as a prescription-only drug.
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Allowing 2.5 million young people to stay on their parent's health insurance plan, that was the right thing to do. (Applause.) Cutting prescription drug costs for seniors -- right thing to do.
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