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A national health insurance program for the United States. [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2004 The US will spend $1.79 trillion on health care in 2004, yet 44 million Americans remain uninsured.
Don R McCanne
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On the Outskirts of National Health Reform: A Comparative Assessment of Health Insurance and Access to Care in Puerto Rico and the United States [PDF]
The Milbank Quarterly, 2015 Policy Points: Puerto Rico is the United States’ largest territory, home to nearly 4 million American citizens, yet it has remained largely on the outskirts of US health policy, including the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We analyzed national survey data from 2011 to 2012 and found that despite its far poorer population, Puerto Rico outperforms the ...
Maria Portela +2 more
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PLOS Medicine, 2021 Background Both health insurance status and race independently impact colon cancer (CC) care delivery and outcomes. The relative importance of these factors in explaining racial and insurance disparities is less clear, however. This study aimed to determine the association and interaction of race and insurance with CC treatment disparities.
Scarlett Hao +3 more
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American Journal of Public Health, 2003 The French health system combines universal coverage with a public–private mix of hospital and ambulatory care and a higher volume of service provision than in the United States. Although the system is far from perfect, its indicators of health status and consumer satisfaction are high; its expenditures, as a share of gross domestic product, are far ...
V. Rodwin
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JNCI Cancer Spectrum, 2019 Abstract Little is known about the association between health insurance literacy and financial hardship among cancer survivors. Using the 2016 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Experiences with Cancer self-administered questionnaire, we evaluated the associations between health insurance literacy and medical financial hardship and ...
K Robin Yabroff +5 more
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2016 BackgroundCardiometabolic risk (CMR) factors including hypertension, overweight/obesity, diabetes mellitus, and hyperlipidemia are high among United States ethnic minorities, and the immigrant population continues to burgeon.
Yvonne Commodore‐Mensah +7 more
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Impact of universal health insurance coverage on hypertension management: a cross-national study in the United States and England. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 BACKGROUND: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) galvanised debate in the United States (US) over universal health coverage. Comparison with countries providing universal coverage may illustrate whether the ACA can improve health outcomes
Andrew R H Dalton +6 more
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Health insurance status and cancer stage at diagnosis and survival in the United States
Ca, 2022 Previous studies using data from the early 2000s demonstrated that patients who were uninsured were more likely to present with late‐stage disease and had worse short‐term survival after cancer diagnosis in the United States.
Jingxuan Zhao +6 more
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LESSON LEARNED FROM THE UNITES STATES: IMPROVING HEALTH COVERAGE IN A PRIMARY CARE
Jurnal Administrasi Kesehatan Indonesia, 2022 The universal health coverage in Indonesia is organized by Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Kesehatan (BPJS) which gives a health protection to population as in medical insurances.
Komang Triyani Kartinawati +3 more
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Geographic Variation in Health Insurance Coverage: United States, 2020.
National health statistics reports, 2022 Objective-This report presents state, regional, and national estimates of the percentage of people who were uninsured, had private health insurance coverage, and had public health insurance coverage at the time of the interview.
Emily P. Terlizzi, R. Cohen
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