Medicaid expansion - The soft underbelly of health care reform?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 363, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 2085-2087

  Sommers, Benjamin D ^a   Epstein, Arnold M ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INCOME; LAW; MEDICAID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649405264     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1010866     Document Type: Short Survey

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