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J Health Polit Policy Law (2009) 34 (5): 829–839.
Published: 01 October 2009
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2007) 32 (2): 187–219.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Jonathan Oberlander The 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) represents a watershed event in Medicare politics. This essay explores the political lessons and policy legacies of the MMA, focusing on how the MMA fits with and deviates from established patterns...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2011) 36 (2): 223–226.
Published: 01 April 2011
... of the Medicare Modernization Act (the MMA), legislation that not only provided for the first time outpatient prescription drug coverage for Medi- care beneficiaries but also represented the Bush administration’s effort to redesign Medicare, converting it from a classic public insurance pro- gram...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2007) 32 (2): 221–246.
Published: 01 April 2007
... is unaffordable. Since George W. Bush assumed the presidency in 2000, the greater threat has come from the right-wing Republican coalition in government. This coalition adopted the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA), which certainly looks like an attempt to erode...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2007) 32 (2): 307–315.
Published: 01 April 2007
..., Improvement, and Moderniza- tion Act” — seeks to understand Medicare’s recent policy changes. He questions whether the program’s politics have been fundamentally trans- formed by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modern- ization Act of 2003 (MMA) and whether the reform’s masked assault...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2018) 43 (3): 543–546.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA), championed by President George W. Bush, called for a new prescription drug addition to Medicare, which increased its budgetary ceiling by a proposed $400 billion over the first ten years. Like CLASS, Medicare Part D front-loaded revenues and delayed costs. Unlike...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2011) 36 (6): 961–973.
Published: 01 December 2011
... moving on to other pressing needs. Whatever forces managed to gather dissipate upon passage, and it can be a long time until the fix hap- pens (if ever). An example of dissipating mobilization is the Part D pre- scription drug program created by the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act (MMA...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2007) 32 (2): 317–347.
Published: 01 April 2007
... growth in payments subsequently led many plans to exit the program (Cawley, Chernew, and McLaughlin 2005). Congress acknowledged that the fiat system of payment for CCPs was flawed when it passed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) in 2003. Title II of the MMA...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2022) 47 (6): 853–877.
Published: 01 December 2022
... program has emerged as a key priority among policy makers and the public (Kirzinger et al. 2021 ). Medicare Part D—created by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003—provides prescription drug coverage to 49 million beneficiaries at an annual cost to the federal...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2014) 39 (2): 259–262.
Published: 01 April 2014
... Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003, and one could ask whether the long-term care expansions are also framed in this way. But one might then ask the comparative question: Why or how did the MMA pass under a similar frame when Daw et al. suggest pharmacare in Canada is continuously stuck under...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2007) 32 (2): 153–157.
Published: 01 April 2007
... the lessons and the lega- cies of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA), pointing out similarities between that law and the original Medicare legislation as well as ways in which the new law might usher in a dramatic program transformation. Joe White, Mark Schlesinger...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (3): 315–354.
Published: 01 June 2016
... the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003; rather, the emphasis placed on the initial stages of policy change is done in an effort to gain a clearer understanding of the political pressures and dynamics that contributed to the design and enactment of later legislative changes like the MMA (Berenson 2007...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (1): 265–270.
Published: 01 February 2015
..., thirty-four states already had developed pharmacy assistance programs for low-income seniors before the passage of the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) and the creation of Medicare Part D in 2003 (62). In a detailed examination of various models to explain the adoption and implementation...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2008) 33 (6): 1079–1106.
Published: 01 December 2008
... prescription drug coverage through its Part D program, autho- rized by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modern- ization Act of 2003 (aka the Medicare Modernization Act [MMA All 43 million Medicare beneficiaries are now eligible to enroll in one of a variety of pharmacy benefit packages...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (4): 533–545.
Published: 01 August 2020
... 2018). For those seeking transparency, here it is. The twenty-first century, as of 2020, has seen enactment of three major federal health laws: the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act (MMA), 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA), and 2015 Medicare and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). While ACA received...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2011) 36 (4): 649–689.
Published: 01 August 2011
... of competitive pricing for Medicare health plans in 2010.) When the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (also called the Medicare Modern- ization Act, or MMA, Pub. L. No. 108-173, 117 Stat. 2066 [2003]) estab- lished a comprehensive competitive-­pricing demonstration for later...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2007) 32 (2): 247–291.
Published: 01 April 2007
..., they also signaled a fundamental breakdown in the “politics of consensus” that had characterized congressional supervision of the program for three decades (Oberlander 2003a: 157). The recent expansion of private insurance under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (6): 919–950.
Published: 01 December 2023
... beneficiaries who tend to be healthier than traditional Medicare beneficiaries, with lower spending (MedPAC 2021b : 8). Before the MMA, risk adjustment was performed on the basis of gender, age, Medicaid eligibility, and institutional status. Insurers could market plans to healthier populations within age...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2011) 36 (3): 555–563.
Published: 01 June 2011
... of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) . www.kff.org/medicare/rxdrugbenefits/mmalaw.cfm (accessed October 27, 2010) . ———. 2010a . Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — July 2010 . www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/8084.cfm (accessed October 27, 2010) . ———. 2010b . Summary of Key Changes to Medicare...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2009) 34 (5): 717–746.
Published: 01 October 2009
...), actively encour- aged hospitals to participate (Cowan 2004), and in 2003 the Medicare Mod- ernization Act (MMA) created financial incentives for hospital reporting. Hospitals that voluntarily reported a set of ten clinical quality measures (in the first year, with additional measures in later years...