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Article: Sickest Patients Still Struggle Under New Medicare Part D Benefit.
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- AScribe Medicine News Service
- Article date:
- April 22, 2008
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Byline: Harvard University Medical School
BOSTON, Mass., April 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- A recent study finds that the advantages of the new Medicare Part D drug benefit - a program that for the first time offers Medicare recipients prescription drug coverage - are mixed. On the one hand, both healthy and sick beneficiaries are now less likely to cut back on basic necessities (e.g., food) in order to pay for medicine. However, the sickest patients, who typically have high drug expenditures, are still skipping medications for financial reasons - despite the new benefit.
The study, which appears in the April 23 issue of the Journal of the American Medical ...