Health Care Tickets for the Uninsured
- 2 November 1989
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 321 (18) , 1261-1264
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198911023211809
Abstract
The problem of providing health care for the uninsured has recently given rise to a number of proposals aimed at making health insurance more universally available. In the past year, national health insurance,1 a consumer-choice plan using employer-based health insurance,2 and an expansion of Medicaid known as the Health Policy Agenda3 , 4 have all been suggested. Each of these proposals devotes considerable attention to questions of cost and funding, but less attention has been given to the question of what should be purchased. This commentary focuses on the question of what coverage can be provided for the uninsured and seeks to . . .Keywords
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