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Jun 19, 2009
Between 2003 and 2007, elderly beneficiaries dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid experienced a two-fold increase in unmet prescription drug needs. In 2003, 10.8% reported difficulty affording prescription drugs, which grew to 21.3% in 2007.
The new Medicare drug benefit did little to close large prescription drug access gaps between elderly white and African-American beneficiaries and healthier and sicker beneficiaries. For example, three times as many elderly African-American beneficiaries (17.6%) went without a prescribed medication in 2007 as white beneficiaries (6.2%).
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Helium
June 20th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Who is “we”? This was George W. and the Republicans in Congress. Yes, I know. The Democrats wanted an even larger drug benefit. But when Bill Clinton was president, they never did it. They just talked about it.
June 20th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Agree with Bret. It was the worst thing George Bush did as president.
June 20th, 2009 at 9:55 am
However, in critiques of Bush, you almost never see this mentioned.
June 21st, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Nonseniors don’t have to buy a separate drug benefit. Instead, they can enroll in integrated health plans. Too bad more seniors cannot do the same.
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:26 am
The data show that people on Medicare leave Medicare HMOs for Medicare fee-for-service when they become ill and need a lot of care. Apparently the integrated health plans limit access to advanced care as a price of the integrated drug benefit.
That’s fine if you don’t need a lot of care, not so good if you do. Fortunately Medicare still preserves that choice.