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008 050111s2004 mau sb 000 0 eng
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040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aHB1
100 1 $aZhou, Yang,$d1908-
245 10 $aPrescription drugs, medical care, and health outcomes$h[electronic resource] :$ba model of elderly health /$cZhou Yang, Donna B. Gilleskie, Edward C. Norton.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bNational Bureau of Economic Research,$cc2004
490 1 $aNBER working paper series ;$vworking paper 10964
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 1/11/2005.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"There is much debate about whether the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill - the greatest expansion of Medicare benefits since its creation in 1965 - will improve the health of elderly Americans, and how much it will cost. We model how insurance affects medical care utilization, and subsequently, health outcomes over time in a dynamic model with correlated errors. Longitudinal individual-level data from the 1992-1998 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey provide estimates of these effects. Simulations over five years show that expanding prescription drug coverage would increase drug expenditures by between 12% and 17%. However, other health care expenditures would only increase slightly, and the mortality rate would improve"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
610 10 $aUnited States.$tMedicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.
650 0 $aMedicare.
650 0 $aPharmaceutical services insurance$zUnited States.
650 0 $aOlder people$zUnited States$xPharmaceutical assistance.
650 0 $aPrescription pricing$zUnited States.
700 1 $aGilleskie, Donna B.
700 1 $aNorton, Edward C.
710 2 $aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 $aWorking paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;$vworking paper no. 10964.
856 40 $uhttp://papers.nber.org/papers/w10964