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Politics and Equity in Policy-Making for the Medically Uninsured

International Journal of Health Services, 1991
A sizable number of Americans (many of low income) lack health insurance, and their ranks grew over the 1980s. One might expect to find vigorous political efforts to redress this inequity. In fact, conflicting normative and practical images of equity have blunted the sense of urgency of the problem, inhibited agreement on the proper division of labor ...
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Medically Uninsured Older Americans

2009
America is becoming a more diverse nation. Older Americans are increasing in number at a rapid rate, and we are living longer. With these changes come an increasing demand for health care services and the increasing costs of care. This chapter identifies the importance of focusing on our uninsured, and often underinsured, older Americans, and the ...
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Information Technology and Medically Uninsured

2009
The uninsured are an invisible face in America. Their health care needs are great and are met by a patchwork of venues scattered throughout their communities. Access to health information technology may appear to be unnecessary, given the overwhelming needs of individual patients. In fact, health information technology (HIT) represents one possible way
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Insuring Medically Uninsurable Individuals

Journal of Legal Medicine, 2006
The burden of providing health insurance to unhealthy, high-cost medical consumers in the United States is a major social issue.
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State Initiatives to Provide Medical Coverage for Uninsured Children

The Future of Children, 1995
state-sponsored programs that use either state funding or a combination of state funds plus Medicaid program funds to extend insurance coverage to additional groups of children not eligible for Medicaid. In addition, a new option available to states to expand Medicaid coverage to additional pregnant women and children was discussed.
C, DeGraw, M J, Park, J A, Hudman
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Medically Uninsured Refugees and Immigrants

2009
Lola and Raul Rodriquez, and their 16 year old daughter Lolita, immigrated legally to the US from Peru in the mid 1990s, following their son, Raul, who had come alone earlier and who had permanent residency status. Raul, Sr., 50, a professor at a dental school in Peru, spoke very little English. He helped Lola in caring for children at their home. When
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The Medical Uninsured: a Case of Market Failure?

Public Finance Quarterly, 1989
A model of insurance is presented to show the sources of market failure that result from the current design of public medical assistance programs as stop-Abstract loss insurance. Simulation results are presented for a linear premium subsidy program as a possible solution to the problem.
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State initiatives for the medically uninsured.

Health care financing review, 1991
Recently, Medicaid has changed in terms of both perception and reality. After a period of decline in entitlement, that trend has been reversed through both Federal mandates and an increasing role for Medicaid in dealing with the uninsured. As States and the Federal Government seek structural solutions, further eligibility expansions may be necessary ...
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A profile of the medically uninsured in Georgia.

Journal of the Medical Association of Georgia, 1989
The provision of health care to the growing number of persons uninsured against medical expenses affects Georgia doctors, hospitals, and state and local government at all levels. While much is known nationally about the uninsured, there are no good data about this group in Georgia. This study uses U.S.
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Institutional Practices for Charitable Medication Access for Uninsured Patients

The American Journal of Managed Care
To identify the most frequently prescribed medications, the location where prescriptions were filled, and whether a voucher was utilized among patients enrolled in a charitable care program within an academic medical center.This was a retrospective cohort study analyzing electronic health record and pharmacy dispensing information at a medical center's
Akshara, Kumar, Caitlin, Dowd-Green, Robert, Green, Rosalyn, Stewart   +3 more
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