There Are Alternatives: Insuring to Bridge the Gap or Opting Out
By STEPHANIE SAUL, New York Times
One way for Medicare Part D enrollees to deal with the “doughnut hole” is to insure themselves against it. Another way is to simply not get involved with Part D in the first place.

Strategies to Avoid Medicare’s Big Hole
By STEPHANIE SAUL, New York Times
A gap in Medicare’s prescription drug coverage is helping to curb growth in the nation’s drug spending by pushing people toward low-cost generic drugs.

Minnesota Limit on Gifts to Doctors May Catch On
By GARDINER HARRIS, New York Times
Two years after Minnesota officials forbade drug makers to give doctors more than $50 worth of food or other gifts per year, drug company sales representatives there are having a far harder time marketing to doctors.

On Language: Doughnut Hole
By WILLIAM SAFIRE, New York Times
Medicare’s metaphor of controversy.