Prescription Drug Plan a Success

According to this Strib article, the perscription drug plan is saving seniors alot of money.
Sitting with her calculator Thursday in her South St. Paul home, Kathryn Friedmann, 70, illustrated the reason for that. For the past 2½ years, she has bought her three prescriptions from Canada through a program similar to the state's but run by the Minnesota Senior Federation. Total cost last year: $3,800, far cheaper than she could get locally. Nervous because one of her drugs started coming from Israel instead of Canada, she joined a Medicare drug plan offered by Health Partners. This year, her drug costs will be cut nearly in half. Including her monthly premium of $67.66, she will spend about $1,999 for her three drugs, she discovered Thursday.
An annual net savings of $1800 is alot of money to most people, especially someone living on a fixed income. Don't think that seniors won't notice. I don't know if that'll move voters into the Republican column but you'd certainly think so.
In Minnesota, about 38,000 beneficiaries enrolled in the new Medicare drug benefit during the monthlong period ending April 18, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reported Thursday. Two-thirds of the 711,498 Minnesotans on Medicare now have drug coverage through the new benefit or similar retiree plans from employers or the government. That leaves about 231,000 with no coverage, the report indicated. Enrollment is expected to increase over the next three weeks.
I know this won't sit well with my conservative friends but I'm thankful the bill got passed and that it's helping.

Cross-posted at California Conservative

Posted Friday, April 21, 2006 11:02 PM

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