Insurance gap leads some elderly to forgo medicine – Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many people in Medicare with diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic conditions stop taking their medicine when faced with picking up the entire cost of their prescriptions, researchers say. About 3.4 million older and
How Medicare Prescription Drug Doughnut Hole Affected Beneficiaries – eMaxHealth.com
In 2007, about 3.4 million Medicare beneficiaries reached the so-called “doughnut hole,” or gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage, during which time they were responsible for their medication costs, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study
