Tour touts Medicare's preventive coverage (The Burlington Free Press)
A red, white and blue bus cruised into Vermont on Thursday on the first leg of a nationwide tour to persuade more elders to take advantage of the preventive health care services that the federal Medicare program covers.

Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries Enrolled In More-Costly Prescription Drug Plans, Study Finds (Medical News Today)
Medicare randomly enrolls low-income beneficiaries in prescription drug plans that cost the federal government as much as $1,400 more than the least-costly plans, according to a Consumers Union study released Tuesday, CongressDaily reports. For example, an analysis of coverage in the Boston area found that subsidy costs for the plans ranged from $2,319 to $3,725 annually. [click link for full ...

Medicare Wastes Millions Assigning Low-Income Seniors to Costly Drug Plans (Senior Journal)
May 17, 2007 - Medicare s practice of randomly assigning low-income beneficiaries to prescription drug insurance plans is wasting millions in taxpayer dollars because seniors and those with disabilities are being placed in expensive plans when lower-cost, comparable plans are available, Consumers Union says.