A detailed description of CBO's cost estimate for the Medicare prescription drug benefit.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Ellis, Philip

United States. Congressional Budget Office

Series:

CBO papers

CBO paper

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicare.

Prescription pricing--United States.

Prescription pricing.

Pharmaceutical services insurance--United States--Costs.

Pharmaceutical services insurance.

Older people--Pharmaceutical assistance--United States--Costs.

Older people.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Medicare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource, xi, 37 pages : HTML, digital, PDF file.

Other Title:

Detailed description of Congressional Budget Office's cost estimate for the Medicare prescription drug benefit

Cost estimate for the Medicare prescription drug benefit

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office, [2004]

Summary:

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 was signed into law by the President on December 8, 2003. The CBO provided analysis to the Congress during its deliberations over the addition of an outpatient prescription drug benefit to Medicare and issued in July 2003 federal cost estimates for H.R. 1 and S.1 as passed by the House and Senate as well as an estimate of the conference agreement on H.R. 1 in November 2003. This paper provides details of the reasoning behind CBO's cost estimate of the prescription drug provisions contained in the Medicare Modernization Act.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed on Nov. 21, 2005).

Report by Philip Ellis [and others].

"July 2004."

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

62321812