Insurance exchanges under health reform: six design issues for the States.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act depends on new, state-based exchanges to make health insurance readily available to certain segments of the population. One such segment is the lower-income uninsured, who can qualify for subsidized coverage only through an exchange. Other segments are...
| Publicado en: | Health Affairs Vol. 29; no. 6; pp. 1158 - 1164 |
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Health Affairs Publishing, LLC
Jun2010
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