A detailed description of CBO's cost estimate for the Medicare prescription drug benefit.
The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 was signed into law by the President on December 8, 2003. The CBO provided analysis to the Congress during its deliberations over the addition of an outpatient prescription drug benefit to Medicare and issued in July 2003 fed...
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| Format: | Government Document eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Washington, D.C.] :
Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office,
[2004]
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| Series: | CBO papers.
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| Summary: | The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 was signed into law by the President on December 8, 2003. The CBO provided analysis to the Congress during its deliberations over the addition of an outpatient prescription drug benefit to Medicare and issued in July 2003 federal cost estimates for H.R. 1 and S.1 as passed by the House and Senate as well as an estimate of the conference agreement on H.R. 1 in November 2003. This paper provides details of the reasoning behind CBO's cost estimate of the prescription drug provisions contained in the Medicare Modernization Act. |
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| Item Description: | "July 2004." Report by Philip Ellis [and others]. Title from title screen (viewed on Nov. 21, 2005). Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | electronic text, xi, 37 pages : HTML, digital, PDF file. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet from the CBO web site. Address as of 7/6/07: http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=5668&type=0&sequence=0 (HTML version), http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/56xx/doc5668/07-21-Medicare.pdf (PDF version); current access available via PURL. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |