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This policy brief considers how to structure a Medicare prescription drug benefit and what trade-offs will need to be made in the context of financial limitations. It discusses three potential approaches, each of which employs a different cost/payment structure and benefits one group while neglecting another. Nonetheless, it suggests that it is possible to craft a drug benefit that would preserve universal coverage by protecting low-income beneficiaries and placing a cap on high costs. [View press release]