Cost of Prescription Drugs for the Uninsured Elderly and Legislative Approaches.
Analyzes legislative remedies to the high cost of prescription drugs for the uninsured elderly. Examines the sources of price differentiation, including the roles of major third-party buyers such as health maintenance organizations and pharmacy benefit managers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and ret...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2001.
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| Series: | U.S. Congressional Research.
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| Summary: | Analyzes legislative remedies to the high cost of prescription drugs for the uninsured elderly. Examines the sources of price differentiation, including the roles of major third-party buyers such as health maintenance organizations and pharmacy benefit managers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and retail pharmacies, and the problems of cost-shifting and anti-competitive pricing. Outlines policy approaches to create a prescription drug benefit, to offer manufacturer discounts, and to provide access to drugs from foreign countries. |
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| Item Description: | Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed July 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC. CRS Report. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |