THE HOLE TRUTH … And Nothing But The Truth ! - Donut Hole Marketing (2024)

FAQs

What is the hole in the donut analogy? ›

I'll look like the hole in the doughnut.” Hence, the fear of being the hole in the doughnut is the fear of giving over control to our higher power — and the underlying fear that we will disappear, losing our identity and our sense of self.

Go to a bakery and ask for donut holes. They are the small round donuts cut from the center of the circle.

The concept of forming donuts with a hole in the center is commonly attributed to Captain Hanson Gregory, who claimed to have invented the first ring donut after cutting the center of his mother's donut out in 1847.

The Doughnut consists of two concentric rings: a social foundation, to ensure that no one is left falling short on life's essentials, and an ecological ceiling, to ensure that humanity does not collectively overshoot the planetary boundaries that protect Earth's life-supporting systems.

This means that after you and your drug plan have spent a certain amount of money for covered drugs, you have to pay all costs out-of-pocket for your prescriptions up to a yearly limit.

a funding shortfall in the standard drug benefit offered by many Medicare prescription drug plans. Collins English Dictionary.

Donuts with no holes in the center are made with a different kind of dough, and they are usually filled with some type of cream or jam. There's no reason for the center to be raw, any more than the center of a dinner roll or a loaf of bread would be raw.

Statue of Captain Hanson Gregory, inventor of the donut hole : black-and-white photoprint. Smithsonian Institution.

munchkin (genericization of Munchkin)

The Medicare Part D donut hole or coverage gap is the phase of Part D coverage after your initial coverage period. You enter the donut hole when your total drug costs—including what you and your plan have paid for your drugs—reaches a certain limit.

What is the donut hole refers to? ›

The “donut hole” essentially refers to where a drug plan may reach its limit on what it will cover for drugs.

To fully cook the insides of the dough, the dough would have to stay in the oil for a longer time, which would lead to the outsides becoming burnt. Punching a hole in the middle of the dough, however, allows the insides and the outsides to cook evenly, creating a perfect donut.

The centre hole of the model depicts the proportion of people that lack access to life's essentials (healthcare, education, equity and so on) while the crust represents the ecological ceilings (planetary boundaries) that life depends on and must not be overshot.