MCBS Highlights: Supplemental Insurance for Community Aged and Disabled Beneficiaries: 1999
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The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey is a powerful tool for analyzing the Medicare population. Based on a stratified random sample of about 16,000 beneficiaries, the Access to Care File provides detailed information on types of supplemental insurance held by Medicare beneficiaries. The insurance counts are a point in time estimate based on interviews conducted with community-dwelling beneficiaries in fall 1999. Beneficiaries’ insurance policies and drug coverage status are selfreported.
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