Employer-sponsored health insurance coverage limitations: Results from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 377-383

  Kirchhoff, Anne C ^a,b   Kuhlthau, Karen ^c   Pajolek, Hannah ^c   Leisenring, Wendy ^d,e   Armstrong, Greg T ^f   Robison, Leslie L ^f   Park, Elyse R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordable Care Act; Childhood cancer survivors; Employer sponsored health insurance; Insurance reform

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PARTTIME EMPLOYMENT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF EMPLOYMENT;

ADULT; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS, EMPLOYEE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SURVIVORS; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874110405     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-012-1523-7     Document Type: Article

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