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We have been most concerned about helping beneficiaries who are eligible for Medicare and Medicaid to use their new benefit . This new benefit system would allow these members to receive long-term disability benefits in the event a work-related disability prevents the member from continuing to work in the public safety field in which the member was originally employed . It creates a reserve fund of $ 35 billion to build on this new benefit , and protect those who carry the heavy burden of catastrophic drug costs . The AGS believes it is critically important to create this new benefit under the fee for service Medicare program . The plan will protect Medicare , extending the life of the trust fund for a decade ; extending new benefits for annual mammograms and diabetes screening . As a human resources or benefits professional , you continually evaluate new benefits for your employees . In the past five years alone , we have navigated a digital revolution , struggled with the influence of sweeping federal policies on literacy education , restructured to meet financial hardship without cutting core services , and introduced many new benefits and programs to promote greater grassroots participation and to enrich professional development for thousands . " Medicare 's new preventive care as well as the other medical services the program provides are included in the 2005 version of " Medicare and You , " a book mailed annually to the program 's more than 40 million elderly and disabled beneficiaries.CMS will work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other HHS agencies to help inform seniors about the new benefits to encourage early detection of diabetes , elevated cholesterol levels , cancer and other illnesses . For example , commenters informed the Department that some States now require long - term care insurers to offer new products to existing policyholders as they are brought to market and to allow policyholders to purchase the new benefits through a formal upgrade process . However , the reason that criticism has some traction is because it taps into justifiable concerns that the new benefit will be a poor substitute for the drug coverage that some three-quarters of seniors already have , and which it will undoubtedly do much to replace .