Prescription Drug Plan Resources

Note: Not all materials are issued by a government agency

Federal Government Resources

• The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003  Public Law P.L. 108-173
   

• Medicare (enrollment, plan comparisons and more)

  • Enrollment Problems
     

• Coverage Guidance (Health and Human Services site)
   

• Help with Prescription Drug Costs (Social Security Administration site)
   

• Senate website, search on "drug benefit" for statements, testimony and more.
   

• House of Representatives website, search on "drug benefit" for statements, testimony and more.
   

• President discusses Medicare, new prescription drug benefits (news release)
   

• Issues in Designing a Prescription Drug Benefit for Medicare (2002 Congressional Budget Office report)
  
   

California State Resources

• Federal Medicare Prescription Drug Act:  State Readiness, Implementation, and Consumer Issues (Scroll to Title)
   

• Health and Human Services Agency Pharmacy Assistance Proposal (Scroll to Title)
   

• Impact of the federal Medicare prescription drug bill : joint informational hearing / Senate Health and Human Services Committee and the Senate Subcommittee on Aging and Long Term Care (Scroll to Title)
   

In the CSUSM Collection

• New frontiers in quality initiatives: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, March 18, 2004
  US GovDocs Y 4.W 36:108-60   
   

• Medicare Chronic Care Improvement Program: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, May 11, 2004
  US GovDocs Y 4.W 36:108-51   
   

• Medicare's geographic cost adjustors : hearing before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, July 23, 2002
  US GovDocs Y 4.W 36:107-85   
   

• Consumer choice: Social welfare & health policy
  Book Stacks H1 .P73  v.14 
   

• CQ Researcher and CQ Weekly
  CSUSM Research Databases--CSUSM Users Only
   

CSUSM Librarians are able to help you locate further resources!

• Yvonne Nalani Meulemans, Science Librarian

• Judith Downie, Humanities and Government Documents Librarian

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