Part D contains provisions specifically for mercury emission reductions.
The retiree must then pay all drug costs until they reach $6,440, at which point Part D pays again.
But Part D's bad start isn't just another illustration of the administration's trademark incompetence.
There's a number that people needing help with Part D can call.
Clearly, nobody in the Bush administration took responsibility for making Part D's start-up work.
Instead of providing drug coverage directly, Part D is a complex system of subsidies to private insurance companies.
Part D is probably the beginning of the composition, where most of the setting is introduced.
There's no traditional Medicare version of Part D, in which the government pays drug costs directly.
As a result, Part D is highly confusing.
Section 1312, Part D can be found here.