[William S. Hein & Co., Inc.] NEW - Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003

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*The Act that produced the largest overhaul in Medicare history!*
 
*More than 19,500 pages of significant legislative history!*
 
Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003: A Legislative History of Public Law 108-173
By: Mike Welsh
 
The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, also called Medicare Modernization Act or MMA, is a law of the United States that was signed by President George W. Bush on December 8, 2003, after passing in Congress by a close margin. It produced the largest overhaul of Medicare in the public health program's 38-year history.
 
The Act's most touted change is the introduction of an entitlement benefit for prescription drugs, through tax breaks and subsidies.
 
In the years since Medicare's creation in 1965, the role of prescription drugs in U.S. patient care has significantly increased. As new and expensive drugs have come into use, patients, particularly senior citizens for whom Medicare was designed, have found prescriptions harder to afford. The MMA was meant to address this problem. It established a voluntary prescription drug coverage program under a new Medicare Part D plan for seniors who contribute monthly premiums and paw a deductible for services. The Legislation also, among other things, replaces the current Medicare+Choice plan under Part C with a new Medicare Advantage program, creates a health savings account plan, and makes extensive changes to the existing fee-for service program. 
 
This book is a collection of the legislative history of this significant act. It comprises 177 document files totaling more than 19,500 pages and includes the law and more than twenty committee reports, plus bills, debates, and related hearings from the 106th, 107th and 108th Congresses. The core documents, being the law, reports and debates, are printed in five hardbound volumes. The same documents, together with bills, hearings, committee prints, committee markup material, the presidential signing statements and other documents are included as PDF files on a full text searchable CD-ROM, which accompanies the hardbound volumes and allows for better search ability. 
 

5 volumes, plus CD-ROM ...................................................................................$795.00
CD-ROM only....................................................................................................$595.00
ISBN: 978-0-8377-1403-5  Item: 61916
Published: Buffalo; William S. Hein & Co., Inc.; 2007
 
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