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Resources on the Cost of the Medicare Rx Benefit

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Resources on the Cost of the Medicare Rx Benefit

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H.R. 1, Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, November 20, 2003
Cost estimate for the bill conference agreement

Letter to the Honorable Don Nickles providing additional information about CBO's cost estimate for the conference agreement on H.R. 1, November 20, 2003

Comparison of CBO and Administration estimates of the effect of H.R. 1 on direct spending, February 2, 2004
Letter to the Honorable Jim Nussle

2004 Annual Report of the Boards of Trustees of the Hospital Insurance and Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds

Letter to the Honorable William "Bill" M. Thomas regarding CBO's current projection of spending for the Medicare Part D benefit, February 9, 2005

Download file CMS explanation of FY 2006 budget numbers for Medicare Part D, February 9, 2005

Health and the Income Inequality Hypothesis

Health and the Income Inequality Hypothesis: A Doctrine in Search of Data, by Nicholas Eberstadt and Sally Satel, suggests that income distribution is far less powerful a determinant of population health than the inequality hypothesis holds.

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Health Care Matters

In Health Care Matters: Pharmaceuticals, Obesity, and the Quality of Life, Richard D. Miller Jr. and H. E. Frech III argue that policy should no longer be based on the assumption that health-care consumption does not improve health, but rather on a new understanding that such consumption--especially pharmaceutical use--does matter.