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Medicare: Helping Low-Income Seniors and People with Disabilities
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher(s): Families USA
Author(s): Families USA
Funder(s): Families USA
Funder(s): Families USA
Topic: Health (Health services for the disabled)
Health (Health services for low income people)
Health (Health services for older people)
Keywords: People with Disabilities; Medicare; Low-Income
Type: Brief
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
This brief examines the high out-of-pocket costs Medicare beneficiaries face and how health reform should improve existing programs that help them afford these costs.