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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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.
Senate Democrats, who currently control the chamber, have a very different prescription-drug plan for Medicare.
There are just six days left for Medicare beneficiaries to enroll in the new prescription drug plan.
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.
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.
Confusion over the prescription drug plan is just one of many challenges facing Medicare and the seniors who depend on it.
You must also choose a Part D prescription-drug plan if you want drug coverage under the traditional Medicare Part A and B program.
So when Medicare Part D was introduced last fall, pharmacist Jennifer Phillips changed gears and began counseling patients on the new prescription drug plan.
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