Health Benefits for the Terminally Ill: Reality and Perception

Health Affairs

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 120-127

  Gabel, Jon R ^a   Hurst, Kimberly M ^b   Hunt, Kelly A ^b  

^a KPMG LLP   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE MANAGEMENT; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSURANCE; STATISTICS; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; UNITED STATES;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE MANAGEMENT; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS, EMPLOYEE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; INSURANCE BENEFITS; TERMINALLY ILL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0348136393     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.17.6.120     Document Type: Article

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6. For the sake of clarity, we refer to employers with more than 200 employees as "large employers." However, when making distinctions among firm sizes, we refer to employers with between 1,000 and 4,999 employees as "large employers." In these instances, we make clear that we are discussing differences in firm sizes.
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