A poll released Tuesday shows most seniors in
Medicare's prescription drug benefit program don't know that the health law "closes Part D's coverage gap,"
The Hill's Healthwatch blog reports. "The findings are bad news for Democrats, who are hoping that seniors - among the most reliable voters in midterm elections - will flock to the polls next month in support of the party who backed the new benefits. Yet just 20 percent of Part D beneficiaries are aware that the law cuts the cost of name-brand drug in half next year through the donut hole, according to the survey, conducted by KRC Research for the Medicare Today coalition, an advocacy group" (Lillis, 10/12).
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