News: 3.4 Million Seniors Hit Medicare 'Doughnut Hole' 
    (HealthDay)

3.4 Million Seniors Hit Medicare 'Doughnut Hole'      (HealthDay)
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by team on 21 August, 2008 06:47:35
 
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) -- In 2007, about 3.4 million
Americans enrolled in the Medicare Part D drug plan reached a gap in their
prescription coverage known as the "doughnut hole," leading some of them to
stop taking prescribed drugs, says a Kaiser Family Foundation study released
Thursday.