Health law delivers $2.1 billion in savings on drugs for seniors
The Affordable Care Act is phasing out the gap in prescription drug coverage in the Medicare Part D program, also known as the “doughnut hole.” This provision has save millions of seniors money on their prescription drugs.
In the first full year of the new healthcare law, 3.6 million people in the government Medicare program saved $2.1 billion on prescription drugs in 2011, the Obama administration announced Thursday.
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