Implications of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit for State Budgets.

Examines issues related to financing of the Medicare prescription drug benefit established by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003. Considers technical issues involved in phased-down State payments to the Federal Government required to help finance the Medicare...

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Corporate Authors: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2004.
Series:U.S. Congressional Research.
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Summary:Examines issues related to financing of the Medicare prescription drug benefit established by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003. Considers technical issues involved in phased-down State payments to the Federal Government required to help finance the Medicare prescription drug benefit, and discusses potential impacts of the Medicare drug benefit on State Medicaid expenditures and other State health care spending.
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