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Prescription Drugs and Medicare Controversy

that a means test would be supported by Democrats but that is far from the case. The article points out that Medicare is embraced ...

Medicare, Part D

to the medications needed to ensure their health. Beginning in 2004, Medicare began to offer aid, $600 a year, for covering the co...

Zoloft

it is taken up and released again, a process called re-uptake (Ogbru and Marks, 2008). A balance is reached when the re-uptake and...

Hydrocodone Abuse

of Schedule III and, thereby, removes many of the usage restrictions. "Vicodin, Lortab--and more than 200 other products that con...

Nationwide Prescription Drug Plan Approaches

In a paper consisting of nine pages a nationwide plan for prescription drugs is examined in terms of economic feasibility and the ...

Prescription Drug Costs and Medicare

to be able to liberalize their policies, something that has made life difficult for many people, and not just seniors or the disab...

MEDICARE MODERNIZATION - AN OVERVIEW

Medicare Part D has the ability to impact millions of individuals who are currently enrolled in Medicare and who were unable to ge...

Medicare Donut Hole, An Overview

This research paper offers an overview of the gap in prescription drug coverage that is a component of Medicare Part D. Ten pages ...

Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage, Power Point presentation

This paper presents the speaker notes for a Power Point project, khspnmedD.ppt, that describes the gap in prescription drug covera...

Acme Hospital Information Technology Project Plan Synthesis

cost billions to bring a new drug to market, and the developer has patent protection only for relatively few years. To recoup its...

Long Term Care/Medicare Reform

majority, if not all, Medicare part D plans will offer incentives for participants to choose generic drugs. It is believed that "g...

Pharmacies and Medicare's Part D Impact

require under the new program, still not sure about who is eligible, having not yet been assigned to a plan or having proof of enr...

Legislative Issues and Medicare's Prospective Payment System

a few years ago. Managed care was quite effective in cost containment until the mid-1990s, when health care costs began to rise a...

Controversy Regarding the Elderly and Prescription Drug Coverage

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

The Elderly, Medications for Hypertension and Depression

This research paper presents a discussion of prescription, non-prescription and herbal drugs that can be utilized in treating the...

Prescription Drugs' High Costs

In five pages this paper discusses prices in the pharmaceutical industry in this consideration of high prescription drug costs wit...

Prescription Drugs' Rising Costs

high price of drugs is not justifiable on the basis of creating such things. Also, when using Nexium for example, one can argue t...

Microeconomics Issues

need for reform and the shape that such reform should take. As politicians haggle over private interests and noble ideals that no...

Medicare Policy Memo

insurance coverage, Medicare requires full participation by everyone over the age of 65 (Scanlon, 2001). As costs continue ...

Hospital Medicare Reimbursement

to take expensive prescription medications as prescribed. This acerbates medical conditions and results in increases in acuity lev...

Changes in Health Care Legislation

Obamacare has consumed discussions on American health care legislation in the last years. Obamacare will have significant impacts...

Pharmaceutical Marketing

emotional appeal, where marketers have sought to appeal to either negative or positive emotions with attempts to find the right em...

Drug Interactions among the Elderly

This research paper describes 3 prescription, non-prescriptive and alternative/complementary drugs that can be used to address dep...

Prescription Drugs and Our Over Medicated Society

orchestrated our growing dependence on prescription drugs. Big Pharma now represents a practically inescapable component ...

Trends and Statistics on Drug Use

and recent mothers determined that, in general, the rate of alcohol consumption for women, aged 15 to 44, was lower among pregnant...

The Marketing Of Prescription Drugs

A five stage model looking at problem recognition, information search, evaluation of alternatives, purchase decision, and post- pu...

Issues Concerning Prescribed Drugs

physical. And, as stated, taken as directed, there is very low risk of negative side effects of any kind. 3. Anti-psychotics As ...

Pricing Controls and Price Equilibrium

is, it represents the price where both sellers and buyers are happy with both price and quantity (GCSE economics, 2004). For examp...

Young American Adults from the Ages of Nineteen and Twenty Five and Prescription Drugs

psychological incidents requiring prescription drugs, have a tendency to misuse the drugs to a greater degree than their male coun...

Prescription Drug Problems

plan, while several public and private sects continue to fight for prescription drugs coverage. Election 2002 revisited the issue...