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With Medicare Plan, Drug Spending May Be Up
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 The so-called doughnut hole is a gap in coverage that occurs when Medicare beneficiaries reach a limit in their spending.
"This shows that having drug benefits is the right thing to do for patients, but we shouldn't have a doughnut hole in our benefits," Baker added. "We can make it better and get more savings and, of course, keep people's health better maintained."
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Last updated 7/1/2009
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SOURCES: Yuting Zhang, Ph.D., assistant professor, health economics, department of health policy and management, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh; Joseph Baker, president, Medicare Rights Center, New York City; University of Maryland at Baltimore, news release; July 2, 2009, New England Journal of Medicine
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