The crisis isn't Social Security, it's Medicare
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- Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Card Program Could Save
All Seniors Without Drug Coverage a Total of $1 Billion. // Ascribe Newswire: Medicine;4/22/2004, p28
Medicare's prescription drug discount card program could save seniors without any other drug coverage an average of 17.4 percent, in out-of-pocket costs, according to an article published today on the journal "Health Affairs" Web site. Juliette Cubanski, a Harvard University health policy...
- What you need to know about Medicare Part D. // Consumer Reports;Feb2006, Vol. 71 Issue 2, p34
The article offers information about Medicare's prescription drug benefit program in the United States. Information is provided for deciding whether or not to buy a drug plan. Older people who want to cut insurance costs can join a Medicare health maintenance organization or preferred provider...
- Medicare+Choice: Reforms Have Reduced, but Likely Not Eliminated, Excess Plan Payments: HEHS-99-144. // GAO Reports;6/18/1999, p1
The Medicare+Choice program was created in 1997 to expand beneficiaries' health plan options, both by encouraging the wider availability of health maintenance organizations and by permitting other types of health plans, such as preferred provider organizations, to participate in Medicare. At the...
- Should The Financing Of U.S. Catastrophic Health Care Emphasize Private Insurance Methods? CON. Pepper, Claude D. // Congressional Digest;Apr87, Vol. 66 Issue 4, p105
Presents views of the author presented at the U.S. House of Representatives on January 21, 1987 the issue of implementation of private insurance methods to control the increasing costs of the medical care insurance. Benefits of Medicare to senior citizens and their families; Drawbacks of the...
- Impact of Drug Coverage on Medical Expenditures Among the Elderly. Gilman, Boyd H.; Gage, Barbara; Haber, Susan; Hoover, Sonja; Aggarwal, Jyoti // Health Care Financing Review;Fall2007, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p103
Our study compares expenditures for Medicare covered medical services among enrollees in three State pharmacy assistance programs with spending among low-income residents eligible or near-eligible for, but not enrolled in such State-sponsored programs after controlling for between-group...
- Rules issued for Medicare prescription drug benefit. // Nation's Health;Mar2005, Vol. 35 Issue 2, p5
This article discusses the release of final regulations for the Medicare prescription drug benefit in the U.S. in late January 2005. Designed to improve access to drugs at lower cost for the nation's seniors, the Medicare drug benefit is a key element of the Medicare Modernization Act passed and...
- Medicare's Cost Crisis: Solutions Are Within Our Grasp. Regenstreif, Donna I. // Health Affairs;2005 Web-Exclusive Supplement 2, Vol. 24, pR90
As this collection of papers shows, Medicare faces serious future challenges as the population it serves grows larger and older in the coming decades. Variation in the way health care is provided-also known as process variability�is a major contributor to the rising costs that are threatening...
- Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Card Program Could Save
All Seniors Without Drug Coverage a Total of $1 Billion. // Ascribe Newswire: Medicine;4/23/2004, p26
Medicare's prescription drug discount card program could save seniors without any other drug coverage an average of 17.4 percent in out-of-pocket costs, according to an article published today on the Health Affairs Web site. Juliette Cubanski, a Harvard University health policy doctoral...
- Finding a Medicare drug plan. // American Teacher;Dec2007/Jan2008, Vol. 92 Issue 4, p17
The article provides suggestions for how retirees can choose the best Medicare prescription drug benefit plan for them. It is recommended that consumers look at different plans and find out if their existing plans have changed. Consumers should investigate the cost of their medications and...
