Health care and prescription drug spending by seniors (ABSTRACT), Monthly Labor Review Online, March 2003

Health care and prescription drug spending by seniors

Jessie X. Fan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah.
Email: fan@fcs.utah.edu

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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Consumer Expenditures Survey

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