The Boxer amendment is very simple. It says if a person is receiving cancer drugs and they come to a period of time--as this bill is written--where they run out of the ability to get help from the Medicare Program, that they, in effect, are covered. We want a cancer patient to have no donut hole, no gap in coverage. That is what the Boxer amendment is all about.
Discussing the Boxer amendment related to cancer drug coverage under Medicare.
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