The Closing of the Donut Hole Begins

...from Ezra Klein's "Wonkbook" this morning:

Over a million Medicare beneficiaries have received a rebate under health care reform, reports David Herszenhorn: "In its news release, the White House said it expects to distribute some four million of the $250 rebate checks, and that one-quarter of those have been disbursed. 'Many seniors and people with disabilities on Medicare face extraordinary prescription drug costs, and too often stop following the drug regimens that their doctors have recommended as a result,' the secretary of health and human services, Kathleen Sebelius, said in a statement."