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Insurance Coverage for Prescription Drugs: Effects on Use and Expenditures in the Medicare Population

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Lillard, L.A.
Rogowski, J.
Kington, R.
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This research addresses the effect of prescription drug insurance coverage on the use and expenditures for prescription medications in the elderly.

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Paper provided by RAND - Labor and Population Program in its series Papers with number 99-09.

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Length: 16 pages
Date of creation: 1999
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Handle: RePEc:fth:randlp:99-09

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Keywords: MEDICAL COSTS ; MEDICAMENTS ; AGED;

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I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets

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  1. Deborah A. Freund & Don Willison & Grant D. Reeher & Bernie O'Brien & Jarold Cosby & Amy Ferraro, 2000. "Pharmaceuticals and the Elderly: A Comparative Analysis," Center for Policy Research Working Papers 17, Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School, Syracuse University. [Downloadable!]
  2. Lauren Cipriano & Bert Chesworth & Chris Anderson & Gregory Zaric, 2007. "Predicting joint replacement waiting times," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 10(2), pages 195-215, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Zhou Yang & Donna B. Gilleskie & Edward C. Norton, 2004. "Prescription Drugs, Medical Care, and Health Outcomes: A Model of Elderly Health Dynamics," NBER Working Papers 10964, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. Frank R. Lichtenberg, 2006. "Importation and Innovation," NBER Working Papers 12539, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  5. Munkin, M & Trivedi, P. K, 2009. "Incentives and Selection Effects of Drug Coverage on Total Drug Expenditure: a Finite Mixture Approach," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 09/22, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York. [Downloadable!]
  6. Dana P. Goldman & Geoffrey F. Joyce & Jesse Dylan Malkin, 2002. "The Costs of A Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Berkeley Electronic Press, vol. 0(1). [Downloadable!]
  7. Gautam Gowrisankaran & Robert J. Town, 2004. "Managed Care, Drug Benefits and Mortality: An Analysis of the Elderly," NBER Working Papers 10204, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  8. Melissa Boyle, 2008. "Costs and Benefits of Elderly Prescription Drug Coverage: Evidence from Veterans’ Health Care," Working Papers 0803, College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  9. Nasreen Khan & Robert Kaestner & Swu Jane Lin, 2007. "Prescription Drug Insurance and Its Effect on Utilization and Health of the Elderly," NBER Working Papers 12848, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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