8 pages. Excerpt: This issue is so important that the president elect, as well as the members of the new Congress, should be pushed to develop concrete proposals for helping seniors escape the doughnut hole well in advance of the inauguration. For once in office, the president will be so busy dealing with the extremely volatile global economy, what looks like a recession in this country, and the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan that addressing the problem of the coverage gap could fall by the wayside, becoming the subject of commissions and task forces rather than action.

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