Health Action 2003 Tool Kit: Medicare

• News Release: National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform Praises Initiative to Improve Public Access to Nursing Quality Information
• Average Out of Pocket Health Care Costs for Medicare + Choice Enrollees Increase Substantially in 2002 (The Commonwealth Fund)
• Medicare and the Budget (The Kaiser Family Foundation)
• Aging Plays Limited Role in Health Care Costs (Center for Studying Health System Change)
• Why Medicare Doesn't Cover Prescription Drugs (Public Citizen)
• Growing Physician Access Problems Complicate Medicare Payment Debate (Center for Studying Health System Change)
• Dynamics in Drug Coverage of Medicare Beneficiaries: Finders, Losers, Switchers (Health Affairs)
• The House Republican Prescription Drug Plan Provides Little Help for America's Seniors (Families USA)
• Medicare and Drugs—Medicare Prescription Drug 2002 Act (Families USA)
• Medicare and Drugs—Medicare Reform Act of 2001 (Families USA)
• Medicare and Drugs—Medicare Prescription Coverage Act of 2001 (Families USA)
• Talking with the Media About Seniors and Prescription Drugs (Families USA)
• President Bush's Medicare Drug Proposals (Families USA)
• Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: Focusing on Coverage and Cost (The Commonwealth Fund)
• Drug Coverage for Medicare Beneficiaries: Why Protection May Be in Jeopardy (The Commonwealth Fund)
• Trends in Medicare Supplemental Insurance and Prescription Drug Coverage 1996-1999 (Health Affairs)
• Finding a Formula for Medicare Drug Benefits (New York Times)
• Medicare's Disabled Beneficiaries: The Forgotten Population in the Debate Over Drug Benefits (The Commonwealth Fund)
• Medicare Beneficiaries and Their Assets: Implications for Low-Income Programs (The Kaiser Family Foundation)
• Press Release: Social Security Administration Sued for Misleading Low-Income People with Medicare of Eligibility for $648 Savings(Medicare Rights Center, October 2002)
• Have people with Medicare Lost Access to Doctors? (Medicare Rights Center, July 2002)
• Medicare Privatization (Public Citizen)
• Medicare+Choice After Five Years: Lessons for Medicare's Future (The Commonwealth Fund)
• Geographic Inequity in Medicare+Choice Benefits: Findings from Seven Communities (The Commonwealth Fund)
• Medicare + Choice in New York City: So Far, So Good? (The Commonwealth Fund)
• Reforming Medicare's Benefits Package: Impact on Beneficiary Expenditures (The Commonwealth Fund)
• The Failure of Medicare + Choice (Alliance for Retired Americans)
• Evaluation of the Wellspring Model for Improving Nursing Home Quality (The Commonwealth Fund)