Medicare Prescription Drug act of 2003: Its implications to the US Health Care Systems
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SummaryThe Medicare Prescription Drug Act of 2003 introduces one of the most innovative additions to the present Medicare Law. It has been hailed as one of the truly heartfelt laws to come along. It now attempts to cover outpatient prescription drugs. The present law covers drugs received by inpatients in hospitals and other medical facilities and drugs that require physician intervention to be administered either through injection or infusion. Injections like insulin that can be self-administered are however, not covered. This will be a major help not only to senior citizens, which seems to be one of the great beneficiaries of this law, but also to individuals in the lower income bracket. Mccombs and Robinsons (28) declared that “recent information presented by the National Caucus and Center on Black Aged and the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that 43% of African-Americans with Medicare lacked drug coverage for all or part of the year in 2002”.
Table of Contents
- The Medicare Prescription Drug Act of 2003: A primer.
- MMA legislative history.
- Immediate effects of MMA.
- Criticisms directed towards the law.
- Costs.
- Possible revisions.
- Conclusion.
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