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Statement by AARP CEO Bill Novelli on Medicare Drug Benefit Enrollment Numbers
News Release
March 23, 2006
AARP CEO, Bill Novelli, made the following statement today in response to enrollment numbers released today by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS):
"AARP is encouraged that enrollment in the Medicare prescription drug program remains strong. Today, Medicare announced that an additional 1.9 million beneficiaries signed up for a Medicare prescription drug plan over the past five weeks. With the Medicare drug program, more older Americans than ever before have access to affordable prescription drugs.
The focus right now needs to be on helping people, not playing politics. Discouraging enrollment is a disservice to the millions who could be saving money on prescription drug bills."