The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003 created a temporary prescription drug discount card for most Medicare beneficiaries and a transitional assistance subsidy program to aid low-income beneficiaries in paying for pharmaceuticals until the voluntary...

This report to Congress, the first from Mathematica's SCHIP evaluation for ASPE, is based on information collected in 2001. It draws on case studies in six of the ten evaluation states: California, Colorado, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, and Texas. Although current state budget shortfalls...

Notes that in spring 1999, almost 60 percent of families left Iowa's TANF program voluntarily and most were able to remain off the rolls for at least a year. Eight to 12 months after they left, just over 60 percent of family heads were working, and many families still relied on Medicaid....

Available from the Unemployment Insurance Service as UIS Occasional Paper No. 95-2.

This study measured the prevalence and resource needs of children with special health care needs in the military health care system, finding that they compose 23 percent of the enrollees in the system who are younger than 18 years old. Most need prescription medications and medical, mental...