Currently, six in ten (60%) seniors say they do NOT have a good understanding of the new benefit.

However, nearly four in ten (37%) seniors say they understand the new benefit at least “somewhat” well, this is up from just a few months ago in April 2005, when about three in ten (29%) seniors said they understood the new benefit “very” or “somewhat” well.

Furthermore, nearly three in ten (28%) seniors say they know more about the Medicare drug benefit than they did a year ago, and more than half (53%) say they know about the same about the benefit. Fewer than just over one in ten (13%) say they know less about the drug benefit compared with a year ago.