dual-eligible (medicare under 65)
people on medicare before age 65 — there through disability, often also on medicaid, among the sickest populations in american healthcare, and not a stand-in for ordinary adults.
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who they are
Medicare is mostly the over-65 program, but millions qualify earlier through long-term disability or specific diseases; many are simultaneously on Medicaid — dual-eligible. By construction this is a high-need population carrying far more illness than working-age adults with employer insurance.
why it matters for drug data
Medicare claims carry the only public per-drug age split, so the under-65 slice appears throughout our medication pages — and it would be easy to misread as 'younger adults.' It is not, and our payer sections label it correctly every time. The mirror image matters too: commercially insured working-age adults have no public per-drug dataset at all, and that absence is rendered as a finding.
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questions
why is there medicare data on people under 65?
Because disability-based Medicare enrollment is large — and Medicare publishes per-drug claims while commercial insurers publish nothing.
can I use the under-65 medicare numbers to understand typical adult use?
No — that is the category error our pages warn about above every table. The population is disabled and dual-eligible, among the sickest in the program.
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