Women's Health Issues
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 1-4 , January 2005

Are women better off because of the new medicare drug legislation?

  • Marilyn Moon, PhD

      Affiliations

    • American Institutes for Research, Silver Spring, Maryland
    • Marilyn Moon is Vice President and Director of the Health Program at the American Institutes for Research in Washington, D.C. She holds a PhD in economics and has written extensively on Medicare, health reform, and poverty issues. From 1995 to 2000, she was a public trustee of the Medicare and Social Security trust funds.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Dr. Marilyn Moon, American Institutes for Research, 10720 Columbia Pike, 5th Floor, Silver Spring, MD 20901.

Received 20 September 2005

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PII: S1049-3867(04)00102-1

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2004.10.001

Women's Health Issues
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 1-4 , January 2005

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