Treatment or placebo: Are state programs decreasing the proportion of uninsured?

Policy Studies Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 367-384

  Bernick, Ethan M ^a   Myers, Nathan ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care; Hierarchical linear modeling; Insurance reform; Medicaid; Multilevel modeling of policy change; SCHIP; Tax credits; Tax deductions

Indexed keywords

GROWTH MODELING; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH POLICY; POLICY MAKING; TAX INCENTIVE;

EID: 48249124592     PISSN: 0190292X     EISSN: 15410072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2008.00272.x     Document Type: Article

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