Medicare Drug Benefit Gets Mixed Review, Report Finds
Medicare's Part D drug benefit has eased financial hardship for some elderly people, but patients classified as the sickest still skip medications due to cost, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Findings were based on a government survey of 24,234 Medicare beneficiaries.
- "Senior Drug Benefit Gets "Mixed Picture" Review" (Dunham, Reuters, 4/22).