1 In 3 Medicare Part D Enrollees Select Medicare Advantage Drug Plans For 2009 (Medical News Today)
More than nine million people, or 34 percent of all Medicare Part D enrollees, currently receive their prescription drug benefit through Medicare Advantage plans with prescription drug coverage (MA-PD plans), says new analysis by Avalere Health.

Like Having Medicare? Then Taxes Must Rise (New York Times)
Americans are going to have to pay higher taxes in order to continue to field a strong military and maintain popular programs like Medicare.

Obama plan foresees record $1.75 trillion deficit (The Pantagraph)
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Pledging a new era of responsibility, President Barack Obama unveiled a multi-trillion-dollar spending plan Thursday that would boost taxes on the wealthy, curtail Medicare, lay the groundwork for universal health care and leave a string of deficits dwarfing any in the nation s history.