Reducing drug funding to U.S. Medicare patients will lead many to stop taking their medications, researchers say
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - 01:40
in Health & Medicine
The lack of financial assistance to cover the cost of drugs to Medicare beneficiaries (the U.S. government's health insurance program for people aged 65 or over, which currently covers 50 million U.S. citizens) could result in an additional 18,000 patients discontinuing one or more prescriptions for essential drugs a year -- a 100 percent increase -- and others to not take their required medications regularly.