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A Medicare Buy-in Program In Brief  / Research Report
June 2009— Medicare buy-in as part of health reform? The pros and cons of allowing older Americans to buy into Medicare before age 65 are reviewed in this brief synopsis of an AARP Public Policy Institute research report of the same name by Gerry Smolka and Sarah Thomas. (2 pages) (Publication ID: inb174)

A Medicare Buy-in Program  / Research Report
June 2009— Medicare buy-in as part of health reform? The pros and cons of allowing older Americans to buy into Medicare before age 65 are reviewed in this AARP Public Policy Institute Insight on the Issues by Gerry Smolka and Sarah Thomas. (14 pages) (Publication ID: I29)

Doors to Extra Help: Boosting Enrollment in the Medicare Part D Low-Income Subsidy  / Research Report
September 2007— The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 established the Low-Income Subsidy (LIS) program to reduce the financial burden on low-income Medicare beneficiaries paying out-of-pocket costs for prescription drug coverage under Medicare Part D. This AARP Public Policy Institute Issue Paper, by Debra J. Lipson, Allison Barrett, Angela Merrill, and Noelle Denny-Brown of Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., examines factors that influence the ease or difficulty of applying for LIS and Medicare Savings Programs which are designed to help low-income Medicare beneficiaries afford Medicare premiums and potentially other cost sharing obligations. (45 pages) (Publication ID: 2007-15)

The Medicare Program: A Brief Overview  / Research Report
February 2005— Who and what services are covered by Medicare, how Medicare-covered services are delivered, how the program is financed, and how much it spends are reviewed by Craig Caplan in this AARP Public Policy Institute Fact Sheet about the federal health insurance program for age 65+ individuals and for some under age 65 with disabilities. (4 pages) (Publication ID: FS103)

Statement by AARP Associate Executive Director Chris Hansen on Making Medicare Discount Card Enrollment Easier  / News Release
September 2004— AARP is very pleased to see that Medicare is taking an important step to facilitate enrollment in the Medicare-endorsed discount card program.

AARP and Others Urge Medicare Conferees to Adopt House Provision Covering "Dual Eligibles"  / News Release
October 2003— Letter to Medicare Conferees urging them to adopt House provision covering Dual Eligibles.

Increasing the Age of Eligibility for Social Security and Medicare: Projected Impacts on Medicare and Social Security Disability Insurance from 2000-2040  / Research Report
September 2000— If the Medicare eligibility age is raised to 67 or 70, what would be the effect on the size of the Medicare and Social Security Disability Insurance populations? And what would be the level of savings? In this AARP Public Policy Institute Issue Paper, The Lewin Group uses a detailed methodological approach to making these projections. (85 pages) (Publication ID: 2000-15)

Older Women's Access to Health Care: Potential Impact of Medicare Reform  / Research Report
July 2000— How some of the changes proposed for Medicare could affect women age 65 and older are examined in this AARP Public Policy Institute Issue Paper by Lisa A. Foley and Mary Jo Gibson. (28 pages) (Publication ID: 2000-08)

A Medicare Buy-In: Examining the Costs for Two Populations  / Research Report
April 1998— This AARP Public Policy Institute report by Roland D. McDevitt, Ph.D. of Watson Wyatt Worldwide examines the cost of a buy-in for individuals age 62-64, who have not yet reached the current age of Medicare eligibility, and for individuals age 65-66, who would lose Medicare coverage if the age of eligibility were raised to 67. (22 pages) (Publication ID: 9804)