Table 1.

Descriptive statistics, 2001–2006.

	MEPS			MCBS
	Age 50–58	Age 59–64	Age 66–74	Age 66–74	Acute	Chronic
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
Outcomes
Any prescriptions filled	0.76	0.83	0.90	0.92	0.55	0.86
Avg. # of prescriptions	16.18	20.83	25.63	28.21	3.26	22.14
Annual drug expenditures	1,106.60	1,354.87	1,600.07	1,789.24	161.57	1,379.97
Avg. tot. paid per script (excl. 2006)	60.94	63.27	62.19	67.94	48.01	69.62
Fract. paid out-of-pocket (excl. 2006)	0.47	0.47	0.56	0.45	0.54	0.43
Demographics
Age	53.80	61.33	69.83	70.29	70.35	70.31
Male	0.48	0.48	0.45	0.45	0.41	0.43
Black	0.10	0.10	0.09	0.09	0.08	0.09
Hispanic	0.08	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.06	0.06
No college	0.46	0.53	0.62	0.56	0.55	0.56
Some college	0.23	0.19	0.17	0.26	0.26	0.26
College	0.31	0.28	0.21	0.19	0.19	0.19
Employed	0.81	0.61	0.25	0.19	0.17	0.18
Insurance Coverage
Medicare	0.05	0.08	0.99	1.00	1.00	1.00
Medicare HMO	-	-	-	0.17	0.17	0.17
Medicaid	0.07	0.06	0.10	0.11	0.12	0.11
Private insurance	0.79	0.78	0.59	0.67	0.69	0.68
Drug insurance (excl. 2006)	0.81	0.78	0.52	0.79	0.81	0.81
Observations	20,719	9,617	10,358	20,072	11,229	17,362
# of Unique persons	12,934	6,262	6,544	10,079	6,840	9,036
# of Prescriptions	352,889	211,718	278,753	573,720	66,874	450,909

Notes: Means are weighted and pooled for 2001–2006 unless otherwise noted. In Columns 5 and 6, unconditional means are shown for outcome variables and the remaining variables show means conditional on purchasing an acute or chronic drug. Drug classes that could not be classified as either acute or chronic are excluded in Columns 5 and 6.