Brace yourself for some unpleasant Medicare drug changes next year. Here's how to ease the pain.

Medicare open enrollment for 2026 starts soon, and beneficiaries of Part D prescription drug plans are in for some unpleasant changes. “These plans will cost more next year with higher premiums and higher out-of-pocket deductibles, and some plans may stop covering certain drugs, or your pharmacy will no longer have the lowest costs,” Philip Moeller, a Medicare and Social Security expert, who writes the Aging in America newsletter, told Yahoo Finance. In other words, added Moeller, “everybody with a Part ...