title: Through the looking glass: the politics of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act.
abstract: The 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) represents a watershed event in Medicare politics. This essay explores the political lessons and policy legacies of the MMA, focusing on how the MMA fits with and deviates from established patterns in Medicare politics and how it will affect future reform.
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Oberlander
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003255:Consumer Organizations; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D007356:Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000639:trends; D011057:Politics; D011332:Privatization; D016730:Program Development; D012922:Social Change; D014481:United States