NEWS FLASH

Millions Of Seniors Already Benefiting From Health Reform | The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently reported that this year alone nearly 20.5 million people with Medicare received preventive services with no deductible or cost sharing as a result of provisions in the Affordable Care Act. Additionally, almost 1.8 million seniors on Medicare took advantage of the discounts on brand-name drugs that fall into the “donut hole” in Medicare Part D. Republicans continue to dismiss these benefits of reform by ignoring them, however. Yesterday Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told ThinkProgress he “couldn’t imagine” that seniors had benefited from the Affordable Care Act.

– Karl Singer