Johns Hopkins University

Long history of missed opportunities plagues Medicare prescription drug benefit

Published in Drug Law Weekly, July 13th, 2004

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of California, San Francisco, have completed a new historical analysis of the 38-year struggle to provide a prescription drug benefit to seniors as part of Medicare.

The report chronicles the series of missed opportunities, financial constraints and political divides that delayed the benefit for years, as well as the unusual circumstances that ultimately resulted in the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003.

The report is published in the current issue of the peer-reviewed journal, Milbank Quarterly.

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Source: Drug Law Weekly (2004-07-13)

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