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Health care and prescription drug spending by seniors
Jessie X. Fan, Ph.D.Deanna L. Sharpe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Family and Consumer Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia.
Email: SharpeD@missouri.edu
Goog-Soog Hong, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, School of Graduate Studies and Professor of Consumer Sciences,
Utah State University.
Email: shong78@cc.usu.edu
Spending for health care and for prescription drugs among seniors has increased over the 1980–97 period; the seniors who had insurance coverage in addition to Medicare, on average, spent more on health care and prescription drugs than those who had Medicare coverage only.
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