Grassley voted in favor of end-of-life counseling as part of the 2003 Medicare prescription drug bill.
If you meet certain income and resource limits, you may qualify for Extra Help from Medicare to pay the costs of Medicare prescription drug coverage.
Politically, those retirees will be a fearsome bunch, likely to demand and receive costly new benefits, like the recently enacted Medicare prescription drug plan.
The new Medicare prescription drug benefit will add thousands more to that tab.
Patients who are now learning of them, thanks to a provision in the 2003 Medicare prescription drug law, could well be shocked.
Despite its serious deficiencies, the new Medicare prescription drug benefit offers a myriad of savings opportunities, which in my grandmother's case totaled more than $2,000 a year.
The chaotic Medicare prescription drug program seems to be stumbling less lately.
And once the new Medicare prescription drug benefit takes effect in 2006, many older Americans may no longer see much advantage in buying from Canada.
Extra Help, also known as the Low Income Subsidy, helps low-income individuals or couples with limited resources pay for their Medicare prescriptions.
He spoke in favor of the recently passed Medicare prescription drug benefit and the passage of legislation providing for Health Savings Accounts.