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Sickest Patients Still Struggle Under New Medicare Part D Benefit

Apr 22nd, 2008 | By admin | Category: Lead Article

A recent study finds that the advantages of the new Medicare Part D drug benefit—a program that for the first time offers Medicare recipients prescription drug coverage—are mixed. On the one hand, both healthy and sick beneficiaries are now less likely to cut back on basic necessities (e.g., food) in order to pay for medicine. [...]