Tag: Medicare Part D
The brief’s key findings are: Medicare Part D, introduced in 2006, has clearly helped seniors by expanding drug coverage, but a key question is how it has affected the cost of drugs. By boosting demand and shifting market power from manufacturers to insurers, Part D could affect the behavior of both brand-name and generic drug…
The brief’s key findings are: The idea of capping federal Medicaid payments to states at a set amount per person has received recent attention, raising the question of how it would affect enrollment. For insight, this study looks at a current policy that requires states to pay the federal government a lump sum for eac…
