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http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/living/health/15384727.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jspDrug plan's role in fall election is uncertain
Polls show many seniors satisfied with the benefit, but about three million are facing a coverage gap.
By David Espo
Associated Press
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - Fretful and 87, Anne Syrop says that so far, the new Medicare prescription-drug program has made her dozen daily medications more affordable.
"But what's going to come up I don't know," she adds.
Like an estimated three million or more seniors, Syrop faces a coverage gap - a doughnut hole, in Washington speak - that represents a personal financial strain as well as a political issue of uncertain impact.
"The doughnut hole is a problem, and it's going to continue to develop as a problem," says Ron Klein, a Democrat trying to exploit the issue in his race against veteran Rep. E. Clay Shaw Jr. along Florida's Atlantic Coast.