New approaches in Medicaid: Work requirements, health savings accounts, and health care access

Health Affairs

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 1099-1108

  Sommers, Benjamin D ^a,b   Fry, Carrie E ^c   Blendon, Robert J ^a   Epstein, Arnold M ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANK ACCOUNT; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIANA; KANSAS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; OHIO; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW;

EID: 85049971988     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2018.0331     Document Type: Article

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