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The focus on the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) as a primary cause of prescription drug shortages is premature and may deflect attention away from identifying other potentially more important causes, write Mireille Jacobson, Abby Alpert, and Fabian Duarte.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP50144.html 2012-12-01T12:00:00Z 2012-12-01T12:00:00Z

Policymakers in countries around the world are faced with rising health care costs and are debating ways to reform health care to reduce expenditures.