This research addresses the effect of prescription drug insurance coverage on the use and expenditures for prescription medications in the elderly.

Governments and private insurers in North America are becoming increasingly involved in providing coverage for prescription drugs. Although the catastrophic coverage provision under Medicare has been withdrawn, the inclusion of insurance for outpatient drugs in that legislation reflects the...

Overall changes in health care use were small, which suggests that the repercussions of the decline in acute care services for elderly people have been minimal. The higher age-adjusted death rates in the later cohort in full-time care suggests that long-term stays are becoming reserved for...

In this paper, we study the long-term determinants of insurance coverage among the elderly using a new data source, the 1990 Health Spplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.

A widely discussed shortcoming of long-term care in nursing homes for elderly is the inappropriate or suboptimal drug utilization, in particular the utilization of psychotropic drugs. This paper estimates the effect of institutionalization on the drug intake of frail elderly using administrative...

A widely discussed shortcoming of long-term care in nursing homes for elderly is the inappropriate or suboptimal drug utilization, in particular the utilization of psychotropic drugs. This paper estimates the effect of institutionalization on the drug intake of frail elderly using administrative...

A widely discussed shortcoming of long-term care in nursing homes for elderly is the inappropriate or suboptimal drug utilization, in particular the utilization of psychotropic drugs. This paper estimates the effect of institutionalization on the drug intake of frail elderly using administrative...

Menopausal osteoporosis has many consequences for women over 50. Its complications incur high treatment costs both for society and the patients themselves. Collection of the epidemiological data required for a cost analysis of menopause-related osteoporosis is not easy, but we have calculated...

Using two-period panel data from the Nippon Life Insurance Research Institute, this paper tests the hypothesis that an increase in the self-pay ratio of medical expenditures associated with the Japanese health insurance reforms of April 2003 reduced individual medical costs. We find that the...

In this paper we have developed a general equilibrium model in which the social welfare effects of the two major govenment health care programs, Medicare and Medicaid, and the special tax treatment of employer provided medical benefits can be simultaneously evaluated.