They spent Sunday maki ng sure everything was in order at the Hazleton Elementary/Middle School for the 8:10 p.m. HAZLETON – For their first big concert promotion Cindy Garren and Jim Della Croce went back to school. Concernover cuttingMedicareto expandcov- era gefor theunins ure d hel pedpusholdervoter s Als o, it’ s sti ll uncl earif thedisco untswillstartto ove r- come seniors’ deep unease about the law. Theestimates areaverages, so someMedicare rec ipie ntsmay do wor se andothersbett er. Medi- care also picked up more of the cost of generic drugs, saving an additional $22. A 50 percent discount that the law secured from pharmaceutical companies on brand-name drugs yielded an average savings of $581. The aver agebeneficiary who fallsinto the cov- erage gap would have spent $1,504 this year on pre scri ptio ns.But than ksto disc ount s andother provisions in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law, that cost fell to $901, accord- ing to Medicare’s Office of the Actuary, which handles economic estimates. The “doughn ut hole,” an anxiety -inducin g catc h in an othe rwi se popu lar ben efit, wil l shr ink abou t 40 per cen t for thos e unlu cky enough to land in it, according to new Medicare figures provided in response to a request from The Associa ted Press. WA SHING TON - Medicar e’s prescri ption coverage gap is getting noticeably smaller and easier to manage this year for millions of older and disabled people with high drug costs. Obama’s focus in Scranton will be to “continue to push Congress to act to extend and expand the payroll tax Obama want s to in- crease the tax cut more in 2012 to save an average family about $1,5 00.
The tax cut saves a fam ily tha t ear ns $50 ,00 0 a ye ar about $1, 000.
Obama’s trip to Scranton is part of a push by the White House and Dem- ocrats to extend the one-year payroll tax cut, which is due to expire at the end of the year. at the main entrance of Scran- ton High School, the White House said. A limit- ed number of tickets will be available to the general pub- lic and will be distributed today at 4 p.m. Obama’s visit to Scranton was an- noun ced last wee k, but the Whit e Ho us e re le as ed more details Sunday about an event that is open to the media and tick eted mem- bers of the public. WASHINGTON – President Oba- ma wil l spe ak at Scr ant on Hig h Sch ool on W edn es day to mak e a pitch for Congress to extend a Social Security payroll tax cut, the White House said Sunday.
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