Archive: Jonathan Gruber

Senior Healthcare Assistance in a Home

The brief’s key findings are: The Medicare Part D prescription drug program covers a large percentage of the elderly and their prescription costs. Strikingly, as of 2007, about 70 percent of the program’s enrollees already had drug coverage before joining Part D. Similarly, about 75 percent of Part D spending substituted for spending by privat…

Make sure you’re hydrated after exercising

Abstract We examine the impact of the expansion of public prescription prescription-drug insurance coverage from Medicare Part D has had on the elderly and find evidence of substantial crowd-out.  Using detailed data from the 2002-6 waves of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), we estimate that the extension of Part D benefits resulted in 75%…