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- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on September 21, 2011
- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on November 10, 2011
- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on November 17, 2011
- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on November 30, 2011
- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on November 10, 2011
- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on October 5, 2011
- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on November 30, 2011
- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on November 17, 2011
- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on November 3, 2011
- Blog Post
The centerpiece of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Medicare Modernization Act) was the creation of Medicare Part D, a subsidized pharmaceutical benefit that went into effect in 2006. That additional coverage constituted the most substantial expansion of the Medicare program since its inception in 1965. In 2010, the federal government spent $62 billion on Part D, representing 12 percent of total federal spending for Medicare that year.