Sen. Brown defends rule requiring health insurance
Toledo Blade — Although Mr. Brown answered questions about a variety of reform topics Sunday, he had come to Toledo to highlight some changes in Medicare that started this year.
Closing the so-called doughnut hole — a Medicare Part D coverage gap requiring recipients to pay for prescriptions after the coverage limit is reached until the catastrophic threshold kicks in — is one aspect being addressed in reform.
More than 100,000 Ohioans fell into the doughnut hole last year, although they had to continue paying premiums, according to Mr. Brown.
