Around Town Briefs 07/07/11
The Aging and Disability Resource Center of Eau Claire County is hosting a free seminar open to anyone new to Medicare, currently on Medicare, caregivers and families at 10 a.m. Friday at the Eau Claire County Courthouse, 721 Oxford Ave., Room 2550.

Q1Medicare.com Brings the 2012 Medicare Part D Defined Standard Benefit Parameter Changes Online
The 2012 Medicare Part D prescription drug plan Defined Standard Benefit parameters are now online at Q1Medicare.com/2012 and illustrate the changes in basic or standard Medicare Part D plan coverage since 2006. The Defined Standard Benefit parameters also give a preview to the basic design of the 2012 Medicare Part D prescription drug plans. Next year, all of the 2012 model plan parameters ...

Kathy Hochul To Democratic Colleagues: Don't Buckle On Medicare
WASHINGTON -- Within minutes of being sworn in to Congress on June 1, Rep. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) cast her first vote, registering her official opposition to Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) budget plan. The moment was fitting, considering that the special election in the heavily GOP district in upstate New York largely turned on her opposition to Ryan's plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program.