Bills Soar As Many Hit Gap in Drug Plan

The calls are starting to come in from shocked or angry seniors. They have just learned that their Medicare drug plans are maxing out on early coverage and that they must now spend $2,850 from their own pockets before coverage will resume.

"I can't pay for my medications," one man told Howard Houghton of the Fairfax Area Agency on Aging the other day. "What do I do?"

Hey maybe the drug companies who had this medicare drug benefit legislaltion hand crafted to enrich them at the expense of the nation's elderly could chip in.