Article: Medco's 2010 Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Helps People Take an Active Part in Lowering Prescription Costs.

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Congressional Testimony;  July 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... coverage that exists in most of the Medicare prescription drug plans. This gap in coverage ... Some like to say that under the Medicare prescription plan, the pharmaceutical companies ... years. He enrolled in the new Medicare prescription drug benefit last year to make ...

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US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 26, 2006 ;     514 words ... ... annual outlay reaches $5,100. "This coverage gap - the so-called doughnut hole - is ... may get the drugs they need." The coverage gap puts at risk 88 percent of those who ... Unless the law is changed, the $2,850 coverage gap is projected to more than double the ...

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Congressional Testimony;  July 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... donut hole. Seniors Face Rising Drug Prices When the Medicare prescription drug legislation was being developed by Congress and ... Drug prices set by the plans that participate in the Medicare prescription drug program, known as Part D, significantly affect ...

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Congressional Testimony;  July 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... themselves in the prescription drug coverage gap, the infamous ``donut hole ... are here to report that the toll this coverage gap is taking on the most vulnerable men ... significant gap in coverage. Typically the coverage gap runs from the point when total drug ...

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Congressional Testimony;  July 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... any of my other medications, or most of my husband`s, for that month. Because I am now covered under a Medicare Prescription drug plan, I no longer qualify for Patient Assistance through the pharmaceutical companies. I cannot use a ...

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Congressional Testimony;  July 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... regimen for the rest of my life. The expenditures of my Tarceva prescription will be calculated annually, so I will face this coverage gap year after year. We decided to appeal to the manufacturer of Tarceva, Genentech, for any sort of financial assistance ...

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Congressional Testimony;  July 17, 2006 ;     545 words ...Congressional Testimony 07-17-2006 Statement of Melvin Kinnison Committee on Senate Democratic Policy July 17, 2006 Thank you Senator Dorgan and members of the Committee. I have worked most of my life. I served in the Marine Corps, and worked as a Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff, until I retired. I now