These summaries, prepared by Health Policy Alternatives, Inc., provide an overview of the prescription drug provisions of the Medicare legislation (P.L. 108-173) signed by the President on December 8, 2003. They examine the benefit package; premiums, deductibles and cost-sharing; provisions affecting low-income individuals; the role of private health plans; formularies; and supplemental and employer-sponsored retiree health coverage.

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