What's the effect of the infamous Medicare prescription drug coverage "Donut hole" on health? Researchers at Georgetown University, NORC at the University of Chicago and Kaiser, have come up with some numbers, and they find that about 3.4 million beneficiaries (14% of all Part D enrollees) fell into the gap and faced the full cost of their prescriptions in 2007. Of those, 15 percent stopped taking their medications, 5 percent switched to another drug, and one percent cut back on their medicines.
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