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There is a huge difference between what we face now, and the Part D plan.
Part D is only partially subsidized, by the Government, to the tune of about 30 per month per beneficiary, I believe.
There is some fuzzy math to support a bit of a savings for at least SOME beneficiaries -—

It used to be necessary to send some patients to a hospital, to charge certain expensive drugs to Part A of Medicare, or to administer more expensive drugs in a doctors office under Part B of Medicare.

There are a few folks who can take Home Health Care now, with Part D, who could not do so, before.

Also, there is COMPETITION in Part D. The drug companies compete on price, believe it or not. The negotiations take place with the insurance companies. The insurance companies then compete on premium price and copay price, with the public.

There is no “MANDATE” for all seniors to join Part D, only a penalty for those who do not sign up until they actually have drug expenses, or sign up late.

I am an insurance agent.

Part D has been a royal pain in the neck, for me. -— However, it has done many of my clients a world of good.

Obamacare, on the other hand, is Jack Kevorkian's nose in the tent!!!!!

"Part D is only partially subsidized, by the Government,..."

"Partially"? Give me a break. It was the biggest tax subsidized benefit since LBJ. We can debate all day how much it costs the tax-payers in dollars, but the bottom line is Bush screwed the pooch on that one. His so-called "compassionate conservatism" lost us the WH, the Senate, and the House.

Screw the GOP...a bunch of mealy-mouth week-kneed bunch of go-alongs-to-get-along accommodating clique-ridden punks.