Caught in between: prescription drug coverage of Medicare beneficiaries near poverty
UMass Chan Affiliations
Meyers Primary Care InstituteDepartment of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine
Document Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2003-08-01Keywords
AgedCost Sharing
Forecasting
Humans
Income
Insurance Coverage
Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services
jurisprudence
Medicare
Poverty
United States
Health Services Research
Primary Care
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As Congress continues to debate whether and how to add prescription drug coverage to Medicare, beneficiaries with incomes near the poverty level are in danger of being overlooked. These vulnerable low-income individuals, sometimes labeled the “near poor,” have too much income or too many assets to qualify for public assistance, yet are still quite needy. As a result, they find themselves caught between public programs that are available for the poor and private coverage that is affordable for higher-income beneficiaries.Source
Caught in Between: Prescription Drug Coverage of Medicare Beneficiaries Near Poverty, Dennis G. Shea, Bruce C. Stuart, and Becky Briesacher, The Commonwealth Fund, August 2003, p.1-8. Link to article on publisher's websitePermanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/36932PubMed ID
12926411Notes
At the time of publication, Becky Briesacher was not yet affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Medical School.