A DRAFT copy of this timely and important study has been made available. It is not for attribution or citation. An official Backgrounder will be published soon. Millions of American seniors have worked hard their entire lives in the belief that they would receive health insurance benefits, including coverage for prescription drugs, from their employer after…
Many Medicare beneficiaries could pay up to 50 percent more for their medicines -- in some cases $600 more per year -- under the Senate's Medicare drug entitlement. Members of Congress should target a prescription drug benefit to those who really need it, rather than costing millions of low-income seniors significantly more than they pay now. An…
[About the authors [1] ] The House Ways and Means Committee has recently reported out the Medicare Modernization and Prescription Drug Act of 2003 (H.R. 2473). The bill establishes a universal, but voluntary, drug benefit as an entitlement in the Medicare program. The bill also makes changes in traditional Medicare and…
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