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More Mediscare

Posted on August 4, 2011 , Corrected on August 5, 2011

Newspaper ads from a conservative group make the disputed claim that "Obama's Medicare Plan Will Increase Medicare Premiums." The "plan" it refers to is actually designed to produce lower prices for low-income Medicare Part D beneficiaries and taxpayers. And whether drug companies would increase prices to others in response is …
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DCCC Misstates ‘Doughnut Hole’ Effects

Posted on June 11, 2010

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee claimed on its website that 8 million seniors pay "full" drug costs when their prescription totals hit the gap in Medicare Part D known as the "doughut hole." But that’s not true; it’s double the actual number.  The DCCC said:  DCCC, June 10: Each year …
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