According to an Associated Press Article, the amount of medicare patients that say they looked favorably upon the upcoming part d drug benefit has finally caught up with those that say they didn’t.

“The positive drum beat has caught up with the negative one,” said Drew Altman, president and CEO of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which specializes in health research. “But on an individual basis, most seniors still can’t answer the big question: ‘What does it mean for me?’”

In the survey, which was conducted earlier this month, the percentages of people who viewed the drug benefit favorably and unfavorably stood at 32 percent each. The remaining 36 percent said they didn’t have enough information to give an opinion.

When the foundation began its survey in February 2004, the numbers were 55 percent unfavorable and 17 percent favorable.

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