Seniors demand answers on Medicare drug benefit
 

By ADAM BOWLES
Norwich Bulletin

4/27/04  

NORWICH -- Lee Dupont pays out of pocket for the prescription drugs she needs to treat acid reflux disease, cholesterol problems and high blood pressure.

"It's an expensive proposition," the 78-year-old Norwich resident said Monday, adding she spends "quite a few hundred dollars" a month on prescriptions.

Medicare's new prescription drug cards may provide her some relief. But first she must endure a complicated process of figuring out which of the cards is best for her.

She joined 300 other people -- most of them elderly -- at a forum on Medicare's drug coverage at the Rose City Senior Center.

The nearly three-hour event lasted 45 minutes longer than anticipated and attracted twice as many people as expected, forcing panel members to promise to mail information to audience members after they ran out of hand-outs.

Norwich Bulletin Publisher Ellen Lind moderated a panel of 10 people with varying expertise on Medicare.

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