Bribe for senior votes comes at expense of young people
Rep. Paul Ryan, the great Republican fiscal conservative, cast the deciding vote in the House of Representatives in 2003 to initiate Medicare Part D. The Republicans had simple objectives: Give big pharma billions and get the votes of seniors.The initiative helped balloon the deficit and created a true entitlement program. It established a welfare program for all seniors -- with no revenue to ...

American Pharmacies Says Medicare Part D Laws Not Enforced
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--American Pharmacies, a member-owned independent pharmacy cooperative based in Texas, is taking on Humana and Walmart via the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for discriminating against some pharmacies in Humana s new Medicare Part D prescription drug plan (PDP). Humana, based in Louisville, Kentucky, is one of the nation s largest health insurers ...

Gap in Medicare coverage slowly closing
COLUMBIA Officially, the chasm in Medicare Part D's prescription coverage is called the coverage gap. However, thousands of senior citizens in Missouri know it by another name the "donut hole." Beginning last year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services implemented a plan to close the "donut hole" by 2020 in several phases. In 2010, roughly 82,000 beneficiaries in Missouri reached ...