Because Medicare benefits are getting stronger, it is more important than ever to look at your drug coverage for 2025 during Medicare Open Enrollment and make sure you are enrolled in the Medicare Part D plan that is best for you. You can learn more about these benefits and review your options at Medicare.gov starting in early October. Medicare Open Enrollment runs from October 15th through December 7th.
These historic reforms are a result of the Inflation Reduction Act that I signed into law and that Vice President Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to secure. This new law gives Medicare the power to negotiate lower prescription drug prices, like the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs does on behalf of our nation's veterans and servicemembers.
Medicare has been able to cap the cost of insulin for seniors with diabetes at $35 a month for each covered insulin instead of as much as $400 a month. Recommended vaccines, like those to treat shingles, are free for people with Medicare prescription drug coverage. Starting in January 2025, your total out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs will be capped at $2,000 a year, no matter how expensive your prescription drugs are. That means you will not pay more than $2,000 per year on prescription drugs covered under Medicare prescription drug coverage, or Part D — that includes expensive prescription drugs to treat cancer, chronic illnesses, and more.
And if you have had high drug costs in 2024 and have reached what's called the catastrophic coverage phase, you won't have to pay any more out of pocket.
These reforms not only save seniors money, they also save money for American taxpayers. In fact, taxpayers are expected to save $160 billion over the next decade because Medicare is now able to negotiate drug prices alongside other reforms — and we're just getting started.
In addition to these cost-saving benefits that are in effect in 2025, Medicare recently announced that it has reached agreement with pharmaceutical companies for new, lower prices for ten of the most expensive and most frequently used prescription drugs in Medicare. These new, lower prices will go into effect in 2026, and Medicare will continue to negotiate prices for additional drugs each year for the foreseeable future.
These are just some of the ways my Administration has worked to help you save money on your health care costs and to provide a little more breathing room for you and your families.
Vice President Harris and I believe that health care should be a right, not a privilege. I encourage you to take advantage of these new, lower-cost benefits as part of stronger, better Medicare coverage that you deserve.
Joe Biden
I just got a mailer from a guy I use to monitor the best advantage plans for me at any given time.
His mailer said changes are coming and they are not good. Benefits to seniors being cut, prices on prescriptions are going way up etc.
I am making an appointment to find out WTH is going on and what I will need to do.
The dirty little secret is everyone not needing nor paying for insulin will see their Part D costs spike upward this year. Good luck shopping around.
I got that and deleted it without even opening it.
I figured right out that it was a pure propaganda piece.
Yep, got in one of my email boxes
You can always tell where the Democrats are campaigning by the giant trail of slime they leave behind.
I got it twice because I get my husband’s emails too. Didn’t bother to read it.
“...Vice President Harris and I believe that health care should be a right, not a privilege.”
Then if it is a right, which it can’t be, then who is going to pay for it. Rights are freedoms determined by God that are guarenteed and something that can’t be taken away. Privileges can be taken away, they are man made. So in actualities, the only right we have is life at some point starting the the womb. Everything after that can be removed.
Oxford defines a right as a noun:
“...a moral or legal entitlement to have or obtain something or to act in a certain way.”
That can be removed. So it isn’t a right, it is a privilege.
wy69
It’s unethical electioneering.