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Seniors Unable To Afford Prescription Drugs, Study Finds

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Article Date: 12 Dec 2007 - 10:00 PDT

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Two-thirds of California seniors cannot afford their medications, and nine in 10 seniors want to be able to choose which medications are prescribed to them, according to a study published in the December issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, the Honolulu Advertiser reports. For the study, Chien-Wen Tseng, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Hawaii John Burns School of Medicine and a physician investigator at the Pacific Health Research Institute, and colleagues surveyed 1,100 California residents who were at least 65 years old.

The researchers found that:
Tseng said that health plans should make it easier for physicians to see if patients' drugs are covered, including how close they are to the Medicare prescription drug benefit's so-called "doughnut hole" coverage gap. The study was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Wiles, Honolulu Advertiser, 12/7).

An abstract of the study is available online.

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