McCain s Quiet Medicare Bombshell (Columbia Journalism Review)
Tuesday night the News Hour with Jim Lehrer dutifully reported that John McCain had been in Pittsburgh that day tax day, as it happens at Carnegie Mellon delivering a speech about his economic proposals.

Small businesses choking on fuel prices (The Beaver County Times)
Fuel prices are posing a severe long-term challenge to the nation s small businesses, two-thirds of which expect lower profits this year due in part to runaway fuel costs, according to testimony from a congressional hearing held Wednesday by U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire, D-4, McCandless Township.

Medicare Part D drug plan administered by private health insurers (Billings Gazette)
HELENA - Signed into law in December 2003, Medicare Part D was part of a sweeping, multibillion-dollar bill that brought the biggest changes to Medicare since the program was created in 1965.

Avalere Health Data Finds Four-Tier System Growing Among Medicare Part D Plans (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Avalere Health today reminded consumers to pay close attention to all aspects of their Medicare prescription drug plan, including on which "tier" or group their medications are covered.