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 ...

House GOP budget retains Dem Medicare cuts
In a postelection reversal, House Republicans are supporting nearly $450 billion in Medicare cuts that they criticized vigorously last fall when Democrats and President Barack Obama passed them as part of their controversial health care law.