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Category: Access to Care
Inconsistent access to care in Arizona
The effects of insurance coverage on access to care in Arizona provides a startling lesson of the problems with inconsistent coverage. People cycling on and off insurance tend to forgo care and necessary medication. As the price tag of Continue Reading …
Keeping it in the Community
Colorado has 140 community health centers (CHCs) that provide care for 9 percent of the state’s population and 36 percent of Colorado’s Medicaid and Child Health Plan Plus clients. Community health centers are a potential solution to health care costs Continue Reading …
The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment
A randomized clinical trial in Oregon provided health insurance to some low-income residents and not others. Results from the trial demonstrate better access to care, improved health, and reduced financial stressors. The state of in 2008 to select a fraction Continue Reading …
Single-Payer’s Impact on Physician Income
“No boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.” Tommy Douglas, the father of Canadian medicare This study follows Continue Reading …
Living up to Lady Liberty’s Creed
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” — The Statue of Liberty Two major political Continue Reading …
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