- Title
- Estimating the cost of a Medicare outpatient prescription drug benefit.
- First Author
- Waldo, Daniel R
- Date of Pub
- 1994 Spring
- Pages
- 103-112
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 3
- Other Authors
- N/A
- Abstract
- People enrolled in Medicare account for more than one-third of all outpatient prescription drug expenditures in the United States. That being the case, a proposed prescription drug benefit under the Medicare program would insure a substantial part of the market and would create the largest expansion of the program in the past 20 years. This article explains how the cost of a drug benefit was estimated as part of the Clinton Administration's health reform initiative.
- Abstract Continued
- N/A
- MeSH
- Aged : Aged, 80 and over : Ambulatory Care/economics : Disabled Persons/statistics & numerical data : Drug Costs/statistics & numerical data : Health Care Costs/statistics & numerical data : Health Care Reform : Human : Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services/economics/statistics & numerical data : Medicare/economics/statistics & numerical data : Models, Economic : Outpatients/statistics & numerical data : Prescriptions, Drug/economics : United States
- NTIS Number
- PB95-123477
