Nearly 60,000 uninsured and low-income people with HIV/AIDS live in states that are not expanding medicaid

Health Affairs

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 386-393

  Snider, Julia Thornton ^a   Juday, Timothy ^b   Romley, John A ^c   Seekins, Daniel ^d   Rosenblatt, Lisa ^d   Goldman, Dana P ^c  

^a PRECISION HEALTH ECONOMICS   (United States)

^b ABBVIE INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAID; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HIV INFECTIONS; INSURANCE; POVERTY; RISK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; MEDICAID; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; POVERTY; RISK; STATE HEALTH PLANS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 84896880541     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2013.1453     Document Type: Article

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