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Medicare Rx Drug Benefit - Multimedia Tutorial
May 2004The Kaiser Family Foundation's Medicare policy expert, Tricia Neuman, takes the confusion out of the new Medicare prescription drug benefit and provides a review of background information and key elements of the new drug law in this new comprehensive, easy-to-follow kaiserEDU.org tutorial.
The tutorial includes:
- important data on the Medicare population and a brief history of Medicare reform
- an overview of the discount card program for 2004-2005
- a review of the drug new benefit beginning in 2006
- an explanation of the how the subsidies work for low-income beneficiaries
This new tutorial, available online on the Foundation's newest website, also explores issues for the future and poses questions that will need to be addressed to ensure the program's success.
This tutorial and others can be found at the website.
About kaiserEDU.org's Tutorials
KaiserEDU.org's tutorials are multimedia presentations on health policy issues, research methodology or the workings of government. Although speakers are necessary to hear the presentation, no special software is required. Visitors can view the presentation from start to finish, jump from one slide to another, and download the slides for easy printing or for cutting and pasting into a PowerPoint presentation.About kaiserEDU.org
KaiserEDU.org gives health policy students, faculty, and others easy access to data, literature, news and developments regarding major health policy topics and debates. To receive email updates when new information is added to this site, please visit the website and click on the kaiserEDU.org email selection.| Benefits | Info | Join | Other Sites | News | Feedback | Calendar | Home |