Drug-plan gap a chasm for many (The Monterey County Herald)
Donna and Grover Stark together take $2,000 worth of prescription drugs every month to treat a host of maladies, including Grover's arthritis and Donna's emphysema and heart failure. So the couple rushed last December to enroll in Medicare Part D, the new federal prescription-drug plan.

Medicare Part D messes up again (Telegraph-Forum)
In the last several days, about 230,000 Americans got a message from Medicare that boiled down to this: The check's in the mail, but don't cash it when you get it.

Gordon: Medicare Part D refunds sent by mistake (Daily News Journal)
A mistake in Washington is causing confusion for many Middle Tennessee seniors who are enrolled in the Medicare Part D program.

NEJM Perspectives React To West Virginia's 'Personal Responsibility' Medicaid Plan; Issue Brief Examines Medicare Part D (Medical News Today)
Two perspective pieces from this week's New England Journal of Medicine examine West Virginia's new Medicaid program, which will allow 160,000 Medicaid beneficiaries -- many of whom are parents of children enrolled in the program -- to sign a "personal responsibility contract. [click link for full article]