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Navigating Medicare and Medicaid: Resource Guides for People with Disabilities, Their Families, and Their Advocates
These guides explain the critical role Medicare and Medicaid play in the lives and the futures of people with disabilities providing new information to help them get the most from these programs.

The Role of Health Coverage for People with Disabilities
A new survey of people with permanent mental and/or physical disabilities explores their health-care experiences and challenges in accessing and paying for care.

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Medicare at a Glance - Fact Sheet -- January 2010
This fact sheet provides a basic overview of the Medicare program, including how it is financed, who is eligible and what benefits are covered under the program. In addition, it describes supplemental health insurance, benefits provided by the new drug law and data on Medicare expenditures and financing.

Summary of Key Medicare Provisions in House and Senate Health Reform Bills -- December 2009
This brief compares the major Medicare provisions relating to benefit changes, Medicare Advantage, the Medicare prescription drug benefit, physician and other provider payment reforms, and other health system reforms in the House legislation approved by the full House on November 7, 2009 and the Senate legislation as approved by the full Senate on Dec. 24, 2009.

Low-Income Assistance Under the Medicare Drug Benefit -- December 2009
This fact sheet provides an overview of the Medicare drug benefit and the additional subsidies available to certain eligible low-income beneficiaries.

Medicare Advantage 2010 Data Spotlight: Plan Availability and Premiums -- November 2009
This data spotlight examines changes in the availability and premiums of private Medicare Advantage options for Medicare beneficiaries in 2010.

Health Reform Opportunities: Improving Policy for Dual Eligibles -- August 2009
This brief provides an overview of opportunities under health reform to realign federal and state policy for the dual eligibles to promote a more rational, cost-efficient system for 9 million of the poorest, sickest and highest-cost people covered by both Medicaid and Medicare.

Medicare Spending and Financing Fact Sheet -- May 2009
This updated fact sheet provides an overview of spending on the Medicare program, how the program is financed, and Medicare’s future financial outlook. It includes the latest available data on Medicare financing.

Where Does the Burden Lie?: Medicaid and Medicare Spending for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries -- April 2009

This issue brief analyzes the demographic and health characteristics of people who are simultaneously eligible for Medicaid and Medicare, as well as their patterns of service utilization and spending under both programs.

Rethinking Medicaid's Financing Role for Medicare Enrollees -- February 2009

This report examines coverage of the nearly 9 million "dual eligible" beneficiaries and explores the national and state impacts of shifting the financing of selected services for this population from Medicaid to Medicare.

Dual Eligibles: Medicaid Enrollment and Spending for Medicare Beneficiaries in 2005 -- February 2009

This report provides the latest national and state data on Medicaid enrollment and spending for individuals enrolled in both Medicaid and Medicare, also knows as dual eligibles. Nationally, there are about 8.8 million dual eligibles. Although they comprise 18 percent of the Medicaid population, they account for 46 percent of Medicaid spending.

Dual Eligibles: Medicaid's Role for Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries -- February 2009

This updated fact sheet describes the nearly 8.8 million "dual eligibles," the low-income elderly and persons with disabilities who are enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid, why this population needs Medicaid, what services they receive from Medicaid, and the current policy challenges related to dual eligibles, including the financing of their care.

This fact sheet provides a basic overview of the Medicare program, including how it is financed, who is eligible and what benefits are covered under the program. In addition, it describes supplemental health insurance, benefits provided by the new drug law and data on Medicare expenditures and financing.

This brief compares the major Medicare provisions relating to benefit changes, Medicare Advantage, the Medicare prescription drug benefit, physician and other provider payment reforms, and other health system reforms in the House legislation approved by the full House on November 7, 2009 and the Senate legislation as approved by the full Senate on Dec. 24, 2009.

This fact sheet provides an overview of the Medicare drug benefit and the additional subsidies available to certain eligible low-income beneficiaries.

This data spotlight examines changes in the availability and premiums of private Medicare Advantage options for Medicare beneficiaries in 2010.

This brief provides an overview of opportunities under health reform to realign federal and state policy for the dual eligibles to promote a more rational, cost-efficient system for 9 million of the poorest, sickest and highest-cost people covered by both Medicaid and Medicare.

This updated fact sheet provides an overview of spending on the Medicare program, how the program is financed, and Medicare’s future financial outlook. It includes the latest available data on Medicare financing.

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Medicare: People with Disabilities

About 7 million Americans under age 65 qualify for Medicare coverage because they are totally and permanently disabled. Younger Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities are more likely than the elderly to live in poverty, to be in poor health, and to experience difficulties living independently and performing basic daily tasks.