Poisal J A, Murray L A, Chulis G S, Cooper B S
Office of Strategic Planning, Health Care Financing Administration, Baltimore, MD 21244, USA.
Health Care Financ Rev. 1999 Spring;20(3):15-27.
Outpatient prescription drug coverage is not a Medicare covered benefit. Debate continues in Congress and elsewhere on modernizing the Medicare benefit package, including proposals that would help the Nation's seniors pay for prescription drugs. Very little is known about which persons within the Medicare population have drug coverage from other sources. Using 1995 data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), the authors present information on who has coverage by various sociodemographic categories. The data indicate higher-than-average levels of coverage for minority persons, beneficiaries eligible for Medicare because of disability, and those with higher incomes.
门诊处方药保险并非医疗保险涵盖的福利。国会及其他地方仍在就医疗保险福利套餐的现代化展开辩论，其中包括一些有助于美国老年人支付处方药费用的提案。对于医疗保险覆盖人群中哪些人从其他渠道获得药物保险，我们所知甚少。作者利用来自医疗保险当前受益人调查（MCBS）的1995年数据，提供了按各种社会人口学类别划分的保险覆盖情况信息。数据显示，少数族裔、因残疾符合医疗保险资格的受益人以及高收入者的保险覆盖水平高于平均水平。
