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  • Prescription Drug Trends: A Chartbook

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    Prescription Drug Trends - A Chartbook, an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Sonderegger Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides information about trends in prescription drug coverage, spending, prices, use, and industry structure. Although overall coverage for prescription drugs has increased over the last decade, about a quarter of the nonelderly and a third of Medicare beneficiaries have no drug coverage. Spending for prescriptions is one of the fastest growing components of health…

  • ADAP Issue Brief: AIDS Drug Assistance Programs – Getting the Best Price?

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    This issue brief, prepared as part of the National ADAP Monitoring Project, examines how ADAPs purchase and dispense drugs, and the drug discount programs that assist states in containing ADAP costs. For more information on the series see the National ADAP Monitoring Project page. Issue Brief

  • Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage: Facts, Options, and Implications

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    Testimony by Patricia Neuman, Sc.D., vice president and director of the Foundation's Medicare Policy Project, for the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on Creating a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: begins with a brief review of existing sources of prescription drug coverage for the Medicare population and a discussion of how the lack of coverage affects people on Medicare. It then reviews broad approaches to improving prescription drug coverage, considers the…

  • Prescription Drug Coverage for Medicare Beneficiaries: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Selected Proposals

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    Updated, July 31, 2002 This document, prepared by Health Policy Alternatives, Inc., provides a side-by-side comparison of five major federal proposals to provide outpatient prescription drug coverage to Medicare beneficiaries, introduced as of July 31, 2002: H.R. 4954, The Medicare Modernization and Prescription Drug Act of 2002 (passed by the House of Representatives on June 28, 2002); H.R. 5019, The Medicare Rx Drug Benefit and Discount Act of 2002 (Rep. Rangel/House Democratic proposal); S. 2625,…

  • Medicare’s Disabled Beneficiaries: The Forgotten Population in the Debate Over Drug Benefits

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    About 5 million Americans under age 65 qualify for Medicare coverage because they are totally and permanently disabled. They 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. A new study from The Commonwealth Fund and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, reports that the disabled have few options other than Medicaid for obtaining prescription coverage. In ,…

  • Medicare and Prescription Drug Spending Chartpack

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    This chartpack provides 2003 and 2006 estimates of total and out-of-pocket prescription drug spending by Medicare beneficiaries. The data and analysis for this chartpack, prepared by Actuarial Research Corporation, assume no change in current law. Chart Pack

  • The President’s Fiscal Year 2003 Budget:  An Overview of Health Programs

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    The President's Fiscal Year 2003 Budget: An Overview of Health Programs A new chartbook describes the government's overall budget situation and examines the health policies and programs proposed in the President's latest budget. Chartbook View a webcast of A Capitol Hill briefing on budgets and health care

  • Trends in Medicare Supplemental Insurance and Prescription Drug Coverage 1996-1999

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    This paper, featured in the February 27, 2002, online issue of Health Affairs, examines trends in Medicare beneficiaries supplemental insurance and prescription drug coverage between 1996 and 1999, using the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) Access to Care files. It also provides snapshot estimates of coverage among subgroups of Medicare beneficiaries in 1999. The findings from this study provide important context for the debate over current policy proposals to reform Medicare and extend prescription drug…