Medicare Fair in October at St. Clair Street Senior Center (Daily News Journal)
The St. Clair Street Senior Center will host a Medicare Fair on Thursday, Oct. 16 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Help is available on Medicare D coverage gap (Martinsville Bulletin)
Some help is available for users of Medicare D who are in the coverage gap, also known as the Medicare D doughnut hole, according to MedAssist of Martinsville & Henry County.

More Budget Pages (Heritage Foundation)
The Medicare Trustees' Annual Report released earlier this year projects Medicare's excess costs to be $85.6 trillion. [1] This amount is six times the U.S. econ omy in 2007. Worse, as the Trustees' Report suggests repeatedly, by rule their analysis reflects a badly flawed assumption and so their calculations understate the magnitude of the problem.