The elephant in the room: why some states are refusing to expand Medicaid

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 1226-1229

  Sobel, Russell S ^a  

^a THE CITADEL   (United States)

Author keywords

ACA; ideology; Medicaid expansion

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HEALTH POLICY; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY REFORM; POLITICAL RELATIONS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84909946457     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2014.920469     Document Type: Article

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