The Financing of Illinois’ Prescription Drug Demonstration Project
This policy brief describes the financing of Illinois' new Medicaid prescription drug waiver.
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Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage: Facts, Options, and Implications
Event Date:EventTestimony by Patricia Neuman, Sc.D.
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2001 Retiree Health and Prescription Drug Coverage Survey-6020
Report2001 Retiree Health and Prescription Drug Coverage Survey This survey, released by the Kaiser Family Foundation, The Commonwealth Fund, and HRET, profiles retiree health coverage for Medicare-age (65+) retirees, including the amount retirees pay for coverage compared to active workers, cost-sharing for prescription drugs, and eligibility requirements for retiree benefits.
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Solvency or Affordability? Ways to Measure Medicare’s Financial Health
ReportSolvency or Affordability? Ways to Measure Medicare's Financial Health This report examines different ways of measuring Medicare s financial health and considers their implications for the future of the program and the people it serves.
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Issues Facing Medicaid and CHIP
Event Date:EventCindy Mann, senior fellow of the Commission, testified to the Senate Subcommittee on Public Health of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on how to sustain and expand health care coverage for low-income children and families, and disabled and elderly people in these challenging times.
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Medicaid’s Role for Seniors: Challenges in a Fiscally Constrained Environment
Event Date:EventBarbara Lyons, deputy director of the Commission, testified to the Senate Special Committee on Aging about how the economic downturn may affect Medicaid's role for seniors.
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State Variation in Medicaid Pharmacy Benefit Use Among Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries
ReportThis study examines Medicaid pharmacy benefit use and spending among beneficiaries dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid in 10 states by analyzing 1995 enrollment and claims data from a new 12-state database.
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Trends in Medicare Supplemental Insurance and Prescription Drug Coverage 1996-1999
Other PostThis 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.
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Prescription Drug Discount Cards: Current Programs and Issues
ReportAs policymakers consider a range of approaches to providing prescription drug coverage to the Medicare population in today s tight budgetary environment, one proposal that has been put forth by the Bush Administration is that of a Medicare-endorsed prescription drug discount card program.
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A Medicare Buy-In for the Near Elderly: Design Issues and Potential Effects on Coverage
ReportThis report examines a Medicare-based approach to reducing the ranks of the uninsured that would permit early retirees between the ages of 62 and 65 to purchase coverage under Medicare.