Diabetes increasing for youngsters

From USA Today.

About one in every 523 young people have been diagnosed with diabetes, according to the first comprehensive assessment of the disease in Americans under 20.

That places diabetes among the more common chronic illnesses of youth, the researchers report, striking 1.82 children per 1,000, compared with 1.24 per 1,000 with cancer and 120 per 1,000 with asthma.

Senior having problems with the medicare doughnut hole

Washington Post article on politicle fallout from Medicare Part D.

The doughnut hole ends federal payments for a person's drug purchases once an annual spending limit is reached, resuming them only after the beneficiary has spent thousands of dollars out-of-pocket. It was one of the most contentious elements of the 2003 legislation that created the drug benefit, which was championed by the Bush administration and congressional Republicans.