Obama's Health Reform Plan Will Close Medicare Prescription Drug Donut Hole, Says Administration Official

Nancy Ann-DeParle, Director of the White House Office of Health Care Reform, says the President's plan will close the Medicare prescription drug donut hole coverage gap, and will strengthen the Senate bill provisions that make insurance affordable for individuals and families. (0:36)
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[Joan Chiodo]

I would be so grateful if the donut hole were to be closed. I am a 73-year-old woman living on a fixed income and suffer from rheumatoid arthritis. I have paid approximately $4,000. out-of-pocket each year for the past three years for prescription medication because my income is slightly above the minimum amount required for an exemption of this donut-hole amount. Our government has financially helped countless Americans (as well as foreign countries) and feel they should also help us senior citizens.

[Trudy Royster]

I agree with Joan. The donut hole is making many of us have to choose between food and life sustaining medication. This is wrong to do to American people who have paid taxes over many, many years. You have to be destitute in this country to get assistance. They don't give you "a leg up" so to speak. When people can't afford medications for those "golden years," the years are anything but golden!