Taking up or turning down: New estimates of household demand for employer-sponsored health insurance

Inquiry

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-32

  Abraham, Jean Marie ^a   Feldman, Roger ^b  

^a Division of Health Policy and Management   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COST; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFANT; INSURANCE; MEDICAL CARE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CHILD; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS, EMPLOYEE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INFANT; INSURANCE COVERAGE; MEDICAL ASSISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES;

EID: 85047682096     PISSN: 00469580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5034/inquiryjrnl_47.01.17     Document Type: Article

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