Medicare patients can get help with prescriptions (Detroit Free Press)
About 43,000 Medicare recipients in southeastern Michigan are eligible, but have not yet enrolled, to receive subsidies to help cover prescription drug costs. Medicare beneficiaries may be eligible for the Low-Income Subsidy through Medicare Part D if: Assets are no more than $24,000 for a couple or $12,000 for a single person, excluding primary residency and car.

House Democrats offer child health plan (AP via Yahoo! News)
House Democrats would rely less on tobacco taxes than the Senate would and more on cuts to Medicare insurers to pay for a proposed $50 billion expansion of a children's health insurance program.

Medicare Part D: fiscal debacle and a lobbyist's dream (The Record)
SAN FRANCISCO Medicare Part D makes it easier for America's elderly to buy prescription drugs. It also gives drug companies a free ride on the backs of the next generation.