For Low-Income Families, Health Care Costs Have Twice the BiteSpencer Rich
Some states have used their tax dollars to cover a portion of health care expenses for some low-income immigrants. California first extended health care benefits to low-income children without legal status in 2015 and later added the benefits for young adults and people over the...
We examined receipt of clinician advice by low-income children, comparing children who had public insurance with those who had private insurance, as well as with children who were uninsured for part or all of the year.We used children who were aged 3 to 17 and living in families with ...
High-deductible health plans are increasingly used by healthy people who are unlikely to incur high medical expenses. But they also end up enrolling many low-income, vulnerable families, finds a study of Massachusetts families from Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School's Department o...
Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis examines the implications of the fragmented and two-tiered health insurance system in the United States for the health care access of low-income families. For a large fraction of Americans their jobs do not provide health insurance or other benefits ...
Low-income families are defined as those with household incomes below 200% of the federal poverty level. The analytic sample consists of 968 low-income uninsured children with special health care needs. We examined the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the sample, the reasons the ...
“These numbers reflect the strong and ongoing demand that individuals and families have for affordable, high-quality health care coverage and we expect this year will set another plan selection record,” says CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. According to CMS, 4 out of 5 people who meet...
In the debate on 'Third options' for health care delivery in low- and middle-income countries it is proposed that self-help should play a larger role. Self-help is expected to contribute towards improving population health outcomes and reducing governmen
Medicaid is a health insurance program for low-income families and individuals who need help paying for health coverage. It’s partially federally funded, but each state also helps to fund and to run its Medicaid program. Because states help run their programs, eligibility varies by where you ...
Financial burden of health care, 2001-2004: The same affordability issue that issues that low-income families experienced a decade ago have begun to affect... JS Banthin,P Cunningham,DM Bernard 被引量: 0发表: 2008年 Out-of-pocket payments for health care services in Bulgaria: financial ...