Lacking a prescription benefit was independently
associated with difficulty affording medications
(Efforts to improve medication accessibility
for older Americans with chronic conditions need to
address not only insurance coverage but also barriers
related to socioeconomic status and health status.
Keywords: access to care, Medicare, pharmacy benefits,
prescription drugswithout a benefit, respectively, spending over $100 per
month. Higher out-of-pocket spending predicted greater
difficulty affording medications but not stretching out
medications