| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w14692
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 14692
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| Take-Up of Medicare Part D: Results from the Health and Retirement Study |
| Helen Levy; David Weir
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| 发表日期 | 2009-01-29
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| 出版年 | 2009
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | We analyze data from the Health and Retirement Study on senior citizens' take-up of Medicare Part D. Take-up among those without drug coverage in 2004 was high; about fifty to sixty percent of this group have Part D coverage in 2006. Only seven percent of senior citizens lack drug coverage in 2006 compared with 24 percent in 2004. We find little circumstantial evidence that Part D crowded out private coverage in the short run, since the persistence of employer coverage was only slightly lower in 2004 -- 2006 than it was in 2002 -- 2004. We find that demand for prescription drugs is the most important determinant of the decision to enroll in Part D among those with no prior coverage. Many of those who remained without coverage in 2006 reported that they do not use prescribed medicines, and the majority had relatively low out-of-pocket spending. Thus, for the most part, Medicare beneficiaries seem to have been able to make economically rational decisions about Part D enrollment despite the complexity of the program. We also find that Part D erased socioeconomic gradients in drug coverage among the elderly. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare
; Health
; Poverty and Wellbeing
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14692
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572367
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Helen Levy,David Weir. Take-Up of Medicare Part D: Results from the Health and Retirement Study. 2009.
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