Other beneficiaries have underestimated the size of the coverage gap.

In fact, the coverage gap is twice as large as those numbers would suggest.

Under the standard benefit, a consumer is personally responsible for $2,850 of drug spending in the coverage gap - the amount from $2,250 to $5,100.

Lawmakers do not defend the coverage gap as sound health policy.

In many plans, there is a coverage gap after you reach a spending limit.

He says no one told him about the coverage gap when he signed up.

The coverage gap begins after you and your drug plan have spent a certain amount for covered drugs.

The $40 will count as out-of-pocket spending and help you get out of the coverage gap.

Later today, the Senate rejected another effort to narrow the coverage gap.

That will set the stage for a new political struggle, to close the coverage gaps and expand the benefit.