Medical drug plans lost in bureaucracy
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
A much-touted Medicare prescription drug benefit program gets under way Jan. 1, but just a fraction of the millions eligible have been approved thus far. The idea was to offer a new prescription drug plan that is more affordable, especially to lower-income Americans. It's believed that aan estimated 7 million senior citizens are eligible for the plan. But actually the feds sent the information to an estimated 19 million, just to be sure.