The long wait: the impact of delaying Medicare coverage for people with disabilities
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Perspectives on health reform (Commonwealth Fund)
- Contributor(s):
- Guterman, Stuart. Commonwealth Fund.
- Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Commonwealth Fund, [2009]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Disabled Persons Health Services Accessibility Insurance Coverage Insurance, Disability Medicare Health Status Poverty Time Factors Humans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- At a particularly difficult point in their lives, disabled individuals must wait two years before they are eligible to begin receiving Medicare benefits--a delay that can block access to needed care and relief from financial pressures. Although the cost to the federal government of eliminating the Medicare waiting period seems high, it would actually represent only a small percentage increase in Medicare spending.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101548868 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101548868