Informational links below offer insight into rising drug prices and how Medicare prescription coverage might be improved — all provided by the Medicare Rights Center. There is also a chance to tell your Medicare D story!

Two reports were released June 2006 by AARP
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M717937028099374130772365
and
Families USA
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M717937118099374130772365
that suggest that a competitive marketplace of private prescription drug plans is not able to control the ever–escalating cost of drugs.

The studies show that during the six-month Medicare Part D initial enrollment period–November 15 through May 15–the average cost of prescription drugs continued to increase (nearly 4 percent) and at a rate greater than that of inflation (currently 3.5 percent). In fact, the findings suggest that the new drug program might be contributing to rising costs.

To learn how Medicare as a universal government–run health care system has been able to control health care costs better than private insurance, read "Medicare for America"
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M717937368099374130772365
by the Medicare Rights Center.

Medicare Drug Benefit: Helping or Hurting?

Marci is collecting stories about the new Medicare drug benefit for the Medicare Rights Center's Part D Monitoring Project. Is it working for you and your loved ones? If not, why?

Tell us about it by visiting http://www.medicarerights.org/partdstories.html
or
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M717937378099374130772365.