Dec. 31 is deadline for Medicare enrollment (The Springfield News-Leader)
Medicare beneficiaries have through Dec. 31 to enroll in a Medicare prescription drug plan, or change their current plan to one that better suits their anticipated needs in 2008.

Embarq retirees feel pinch, fight back (The News & Observer)
Health benefits cut provokes lawsuit.

AARP is drug plan advocate, marketer (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
When Kim Andrews advises seniors in suburban Delaware County, Pa., on choosing a Medicare drug plan, she finds that the AARP-branded options are not typically the cheapest. The AARP plans often cost hundreds of dollars more a year than the lowest-priced competitors, according to estimates by the government's Medicare Web site, which Andrews uses. "They're usually not in my top 10 on a comparison ...

AARP is drug plan advocate, marketer (Belleville News-Democrat)
When Kim Andrews advises seniors in suburban Delaware County, Pa., on choosing a Medicare drug plan, she finds that the AARP-branded options are not typically the cheapest.