drug benefit

Those plans would provide drug benefits along with a full range of medical services.

Under the legislation, drug benefits would become available in 2006.

But the Democrats, they say, did not fight hard enough for a better drug benefit.

Many members have, after all, promised a drug benefit for six years.

And we're going to get a real prescription drug benefit.

How does the new Medicare drug benefit work for them?

But the biggest issue in the coming battle is not the drug benefits.

It would, he said, provide drug benefits to people with the greatest financial needs.

Administration officials said they had not concealed information about the cost of the new drug benefit.

You can: Buy a plan that offers the drug benefit alone.

These companies already manage drug benefits for more than 200 million Americans with private health insurance.

The president said the drug benefit would "make the life of our seniors better."

The added drug benefits would cover 70 million potential customers.

They play a critical role in delivery of the drug benefit.

A Medicare drug benefit would pick up some of those costs.

The new drug benefit would be provided through the Medicare program.

States are also not required to provide a prescription drug benefit.

In general, people will not automatically receive the drug benefit.

That, along with other potential savings, should leave room to add some drug benefit.

The drug benefit is provided by insurance companies under contract to the government.

Today, that word is at the center of the prescription drug benefits debate.

Others of any age, who are not covered by Medicare, would get a similar drug benefit.

To receive the drug benefit, one must sign up with a plan offered by a private company.

A drug benefit would be an expensive change in the 37-year-old Medicare program.

Much of the Senate debate today centered on the drug benefit.