Policy options to expand medicare's low-income provisions to improve access and affordability

Health Affairs

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2086-2094

  Schoen, Cathy ^a   Buttorff, Christine ^b   Andersen, Martin ^c   Davis, Karen ^d,e  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^d Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICARE; POVERTY; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MEDICARE; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; POLICY MAKING; POVERTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84951088866     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0355     Document Type: Article

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