Tag: health insurance
Abstract This paper uses the substantial increase in prescription drug insurance coverage from the adoption of Part D to generate new estimates the impact of coverage on drug utilization and cost-related non-adherence. The analysis uses detailed panel data on the elderly before and after the implementation of Part D drawn from the 2005 and 2007…
The brief’s key findings are: Long-term care is the major uninsured expense for most retirees. CLASS is a new, voluntary, national program designed to: alleviate the need for families to impoverish themselves to qualify for Medicaid; reduce the burden of care on families; and offset a bias towards institutionalization. The primary challenge to CLASS is…
