Medicare open enrollment now under way (Brewton Standard)
Open enrollment for Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage in the 2007 calendar year is under way. Medicare, the federal health insurance program for people 65 and older (and for younger people with disabilities), offers insurance coverage to help pay for prescription drugs.

Medicare Part D has changes (The Oshkosh Northwestern)
Everything has changed.

Medicare Part D program spent $13 billion less than budgeted (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
WASHINGTON - The Medicare drug benefit has cost nearly $13 billion less than expected this year, a rare federal program coming in under budget. President Bush credits competition among the dozens of private insurance companies administering Medicare Part D, but figures provided by the agency that oversees the benefit show two other key factors: lower-than-expected enrollment and drug prices that