HHS: Healthcare Reform Saves Medicare Beneficiaries $5k Through 2022

The average Medicare beneficiary will save $5,000 from 2010 to 2022 under the healthcare reform law, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Other savings and achievements under healthcare reform include the following:

•    More than 5.5 million seniors and people with disabilities saved nearly $4.5 billion on prescription drugs since the law was enacted.
•    Seniors in the Medicare prescription drug coverage gap known as the donut hole have saved an average of $641 in the first eight months of 2012 alone.
•    In the first eight months of 2012, more than 19 million people with original Medicare received at least one preventive service at no cost to them.

For more information from this HHS report, click here.

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