Right now, millions of seniors face huge out-of-pocket costs when their spending on drugs falls within a coverage gap.
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If they don't choose within 30 days, a doctor is assigned to them, so there is no coverage gap.
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And this year, seniors who fall in the coverage gap known as the doughnut hole will start getting some help.
This year, seniors who fall in the coverage gap known as the doughnut hole will get some help to help pay for prescription drugs.
Seniors who fall into the coverage gap known as the donut hole will receive discounts of up to 50 percent on their prescriptions as we begin to close that gap altogether.
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That agreement discounts medications for Medicare beneficiaries facing high out-of-pocket expenses when their benefits reach a gap in coverage.
However, beginning Saturday, affected Medicare beneficiaries will receive a 50% discount on all branded prescriptions during the gap in coverage, effectively cutting their out-of-pocket costs in half.
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And we can use some of the savings to fill the gap in coverage that forces too many seniors to pay thousands of dollars a year out of their own pockets for prescription drugs.
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.
Beijing says it will rely on private insurers to fill the gap beyond basic coverage.
But the court said there was a close link between employment and the exposure that led to the illness, and that upholding the appeals court ruling could mean a potential gap in insurance coverage for workers, especially those no longer employed by the same firm.
Also use utmost caution if considering short-term temporary health coverage intended as a stop-gap measure.
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.
The gap in Part D drug coverage can present a senior with a serious problem when it comes to paying for badly needed medicines.
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The new measure, called a reconciliation bill, also would take additional steps to close a gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage and to help low- and middle-income Americans purchase health insurance through new insurance exchanges.
She listed essential elements for passing a health care bill, including making coverage more affordable for middle-class Americans, sustaining the solvency of the Medicare program for senior citizens while eliminating a gap in their prescription drug coverage, no deficit increase and holding insurance companies accountable.
If anything, Social Security and Medicare should be expanded to cover the huge gap in retirement savings and health care coverage.
Beginning next year, seniors will get 50% off on prescription drugs during the gap with the full 100% of the cost of prescription drugs credited towards getting them through the gap period to where they once again regain full coverage.
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But politicians in Cardiff Bay were today focused on a different kind of deficit - the gap between political activity in the National Assembly for Wales and media coverage of it - or the lack of it.
On the most controversial provision of the law -- a mandate requiring people to have health care coverage -- 51% of those questioned said they opposed it and 47% favored it, a gap within the survey's margin of error.
Andrew Bindman, a doctor at San Francisco General Hospital, where a quarter of ward-time is taken up by homeless people, speculates that as the gap between the insured and the uninsured continues to widen, and as the number of those without coverage extends further into the middle class, it will become politically impossible to ignore.
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