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An analysis of the Medicare prescrip...

Lucarelli, Claudio.

An analysis of the Medicare prescription drug benefit.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	An analysis of the Medicare prescription drug benefit.
Author:	Lucarelli, Claudio.
Description:	83 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Mark V. Pauly; Eugenio J. Miravete.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A, page: 2691.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-07A.
Subject:	Economics, Labor.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3225497
ISBN:	9780542799723

An analysis of the Medicare prescription drug benefit.
Lucarelli, Claudio.

An analysis of the Medicare prescription drug benefit. - 83 p.

Advisers: Mark V. Pauly; Eugenio J. Miravete.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2006.

8,000 and Medicare has recently experienced the largest expansion of benefits since its inception: the inclusion of prescription drug coverage tinder the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. The policy debate has mainly focused on estimating the cost of implementing the new benefit, with little attention to the quantification of its impact on beneficiaries' life, expectancy, health status, and health-related behaviors. The policy came into effect in January 2006; therefore, no post-policy data are available yet. This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of the demand for supplemental health insurance and different types of medical care, and uses the model to forecast the effects of the new Medicare benefit in a way that explicitly takes into account the policy's unique actuarial design and the dynamic features it includes. The results show that the new policy increases expenditure on prescription drugs by 24%, and has a positive effect on health status and life expectancy. There is a corresponding increase in the utilization of inpatient and outpatient care, due to the extension of life for people in poor health. The cost of extending life by a year is estimated to be between

ISBN: 9780542799723Subjects--Topical Terms:

212660
Economics, Labor.

An analysis of the Medicare prescription drug benefit.
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