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He'd cut across the board by 43 percent, including Medicare, Medicaid and military spending.

Medicare's Drug Coverage Gap to Shrink Away Under Health Care Reform
FRIDAY, April 8 (HealthDay News) -- Starting this year, Medicare Part D's widely despised "donut hole" -- the gap in drug cost coverage enrollees encounter when they reach a certain spending threshold -- will start to disappear, one result of the health care reform package enacted last year, experts say.

Gap in Medicare coverage slowly closing
COLUMBIA Officially, the chasm in Medicare Part D's prescription coverage is called the coverage gap. However, thousands of senior citizens in Missouri know it by another name the "donut hole." Beginning last year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services implemented a plan to close the "donut hole" by 2020 in several phases. In 2010, roughly 82,000 beneficiaries in Missouri reached ...