America's health care safety net: Revisiting the 2000 IOM report

Health Affairs

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1490-1494

  Lewin, Marion E ^a   Baxter, Raymond J ^a  

^a Kaiser Foundation Health Plan ^*  (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAID; MEDICINE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIGRATION; ORGANIZATION; PATIENT; PRESCRIPTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE (U.S.); MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MEDICAID; MEDICAL INDIGENCY; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; NATURAL DISASTERS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; STATE HEALTH PLANS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 35148825929     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.26.5.1490     Document Type: Article

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