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medicare prescription Page 1 1 Still a Pain: The Cost of Prescription Drugs to Seniors With the
Medicare Drug Benefit B y Dean Baker 1 December 4, 2003 1 Dean Baker is co-director of the …

The Quebec government has introduced a new provincial drug-insurance scheme that by
January 1997 will provide coverage to all Quebecers. The first phase of the measure, which …

Mr. Chairman, I thank you for inviting me to testify today on seniors' access to prescription
drug benefits. I am an economist who has devoted considerable attention to health care …

Abstract" We think the changes make some sense and we don't think they will endanger the
health care of our members and retirees," says Sym Gill, Director of the Pension and …

A 78-year-old Vermont woman with breast cancer, hypercholesterolemia, and arthritis must
pay nearly $300 a month for prescription drugs at her local pharmacy. But if she takes a bus …

The Medicare prescription drug benefit will not solve the underlying problem of high, and
often unaffordable, drug costs for older Americans. In 2000 alone, Americans spent $132 …

BACKGROUND The Clinton Administration has proposed that prescription drug benefits be
included as part of a reformed health care system and, for the elderly, that their prescriptions …

Fiscally, US Medicare is truly a Frankenstein's monster. When established, it was not set up
as a stand-alone health insurance plan, but tacked onto Social Security (the federal …

Family physicians in Quebec are finding that patient compliance with their medication orders
is decreasing fast, for the simple reason that their patients can no longer afford the drugs …