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Nearly eight out of 10 people enrolled in a Medicare prescription drug plan say they're satisfied, and only 20 percent said they felt like they were not saving money with their plans, according to a survey released Thursday by AARP.
It found that 63 percent of respondents felt their new Medicare drug plan is either better or as good as their previous coverage, while 17 percent felt it was worse.
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Forty percent said they believed they would have needed to give something up if Medicare had not added the new drug benefit. Those sacrifices may have included groceries, reducing medication, finding less expensive housing, and cutting back on savings.
"Before Medicare added a drug benefit, more than half of those in the program either lacked drug coverage or had inadequate coverage that did not protect them from high out-of-pocket costs. The new plans fill a critical need for affordable prescription drugs," AARP Director of Health Strategy Cheryl Matheis said in a prepared statement.
As of March, more than 27 million people were enrolled in a new Medicare drug plan.
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