The Kaiser Family Foundation has compiled a list of its own and other resources to provide consumers with information on Medicare and the new drug law:

Resources on Medicare
Resources on the Medicare Drug Law
Additional Information Sources

Resources on Medicare

• Medicare at a Glance - Fact Sheet
  A basic overview of the Medicare program, including how it is financed, who is eligible, and what benefits are covered under the program.
• Medicare Advantage - Fact Sheet
  An overview of the Medicare Advantage program (formerly Medicare+Choice).
• Talking About Medicare: Your Guide to Understanding the Program
  This online consumer guide helps people on Medicare and their family members and caregivers to make informed decisions about their health care.
• Navigating Medicare and Medicaid: Resource Guides for People with Disabilities, Their Families, and Their Advocates
  These guides explain the critical role Medicare and Medicaid have come to play in the lives and the futures of roughly 20 million children, adults, and seniors with disabilities - and give people with disabilities new information to help them get the most from these programs.

Resources on the Medicare Drug Law

• Medicare Q&A Weekly Column
  This weekly column, prepared by the Kaiser Family Foundation and distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services from September 2005 to June 2006, answered questions from readers related to the new Medicare drug benefit.
• The Medicare Prescription Drug Law - Fact Sheet
  A description of the new Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, the new drug benefit, and additional changes to the Medicare program.
• Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Information, by State, 2006
  This fact sheet provides information on the Medicare prescription drug plans available in each state, as well as a demographic profile of each state's Medicare population.
• Public Opinion on Medicare Prescription Drug Law
  Selected findings on knowledge and understanding of the New Medicare Rx Drug Program from the Kaiser Health Poll Report.
  

Additional Information Sources

General

• Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) -http://www.medicare.gov/
• Social Security Administration - http://www.ssa.gov/mediinfo.htm
• AARP – Health Insurance and Medicare - http://www.aarp.org/healthcoverage/
• Center for Medicare Advocacy - http://www.medicareadvocacy.org
• Health Assistance Partnerships – Medicare Resource Page: http://www.healthassistancepartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Medicare
• Medicare Rights Center - http://www.medicarerights.org/Index.html

Prescription Drugs

• Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) – Prescription Drug and Other Assistance Programs -- http://www.medicare.gov/AssistancePrograms/home.asp?version=default&browser=IE%7C6%7CWin2000&language=English&defaultstatus=0&pagelist=Home
• AARP – Medicare and Prescription Drugs - http://www.aarp.org/legislative/prescriptiondrugs/
• Access to Benefits Coalition - http://www.accesstobenefits.org/
• Center for Medicare Advocacy – Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage - http://www.medicareadvocacy.org/FAQ_PrescDrugs.htm
• Health Assistance Partnerships – Medicare-Approved Drug Discount Card Resource Page http://www.healthassistancepartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=MedicareRxDiscountCardCenter
• National Council on Aging – Medicare Prescription Drug Law - http://www.ncoa.org/content.cfm?sectionID=214
• PhRMA – Helping Patients - http://www.helpingpatients.org/index.cfm

Low-Income

• Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) – Medicaid Site for Consumer Information http://www.cms.hhs.gov/medicaid/consumer.asp
• AARP – Low Income Help - http://www.aarp.org/money/lowincomehelp/
• Benefits Check Up - http://www.benefitscheckup.org/
• National Senior Citizens Law Center – Medicaid Page: http://www.nsclc.org/issues_health_medicaid.html