Health Highlights: Sept. 23, 2010
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:

The President's Plan To End Medicare Part D As We Know It
Part of President Barack Obama's deficit reduction plan is to allow Medicare to "negotiate" prescription drug prices. This sounds sensible, except that government never "negotiates" anything. It sets prices and then tells sellers to take it or leave it.

Health Care Reform: Will It Empower or Perplex Consumers?
Part one of three-part series

Medicare 'doughnut hole' to fill gradually
The federal health care overhaul delivers deep price cuts this year that will benefit Medicare prescription drug customers who fall into a coverage gap known as the "doughnut hole." But limited coverage still may pose a financial challenge for a few more years.