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  • It's Time To Share Drug Savings With Medicare Patients

    Kenneth Thorpe, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University.|Oct 17, 2024

    By Kenneth Thorpe A simple reform to Medicare's prescription drug program could put billions of dollars back into seniors' pockets over the next decade. That'd help them better manage their chronic conditions and significantly lower overall health spending. Concerningly, that reform is gathering dust. That's a huge problem for seniors -- and one we need to fix sooner rather than later. More than two-thirds of Medicare beneficiaries have multiple chronic illnesses. They face health care costs...