Official warns of Medicare predators (Birmingham News)
WASHINGTON - An Alabama senior services official told Congress Tuesday that the network of State Health Insurance Assistance Programs, which help counsel seniors on their Medicare options, needs more federal funding to help protect seniors from predatory marketing schemes.

Medicare Part D plans vary across U.S. (News-Medical-Net)
An examination of Medicare Part D plans in California and Hawaii reveals wide variations in drug formularies, but indicates that for many classes of drugs, it is possible to find at least one or more drug that is covered by nearly all Part D plans, according to a study in the June 20 issue of JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association