Medicare prescription will increase premiums in the year 2012.

WASHINGTON (AP) - the Obama management had good news for seniors Thursday: the average monthly premium for the Medicare is not popular prescription program by next year.

Many seniors can see even a jump in their costs, in particular, if they Open registration season autumn shop around.

Officials credited increased use of generic drugs and competition within the program, which is delivered by private insurance. Medicare expected also in a coming bonanza to share, such as a number of top-selling brand name drugs generic competition next year or so.

The projects of health and Human Services Department the average premium for 2012 about $30 per month, from $30.76 this year are hardly changed.

Because the 2012 estimate is average, it is not premiums for each. Some seniors can increase you find below. But they are options. Bargains of lots of should be open registration available in the season.

Officials also said that 900,000 Medicare recipients with high drug costs is a discount of 50% on brand name drugs in this year a benefit of President Barack Obama health care righthave received. This number will grow to keep as more people into the coverage gap known as the doughnut hole fall throughout the year. Health law includes to and after the gap.

Medicare covers some 47 million seniors and people with disabilities. Overall 9 out of 10 recipients have a kind of prescription drug plan. Some still benefits through their former employers. But more than half the recipe program, also known as part D.

Published a new study by the journal of the American Medical Association found prescription set off some of its costs for the taxpayer savings for the Government, as well as seniors of the program.

It estimated that of the drug Medicare use on average $1200 per year for each senior stored, which had no cover or insufficient services, before the program was launched in 2006 in the life. Most of these came from reduced hospital and nursing home costs, provisions helped to keep people healthier.

That translates into an average annual savings of $12 billion, the study said that about 20 percent of the 55 billion dollar, spend taxpayers for the program balance.

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