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Concerns Of Younger Medicare Beneficiaries
In this month's issue of Health Affairs, J. Wyatt Koma and coauthors
investigate measures of access to care, cost concerns, and satisfaction
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with care among Medicare and Medicare Advantage beneficiaries.
The authors beneficiaries younger than age sixty-five living in the
community (as opposed to those in facility settings) with beneficiaries
ages sixty-five and older.
They find that the approximately 8 million Medicare enrollees who are
younger than age sixty-five report significant access and cost concerns.
Younger enrollees are more likely than older enrollees to report having
trouble accessing health care in the past year, more likely to report
dissatisfaction with out-of-pocket spending, and are more unsatisfied
with the quality of medical care they receive.
"Black and Hispanic beneficiaries make up a disproportionate share of
younger Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities," the authors note,
so "efforts to improve their experiences within Medicare would be
consistent with the broader [Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services]
strategy to adopt policies that promote health equity."
"Our findings raise questions as to the adequacy of the current
Medicare program to meet the physical and mental health needs of
beneficiaries with disabilities," Koma and coauthors conclude.
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the following sentence that has since been corrected, "They find that
the approximately 8 million Medicare enrollees who are younger than age
sixty-five report significant access and cost concerns."
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