Update on the Affordable Care Act. King v. Burwell and Obergefell v. Hodge.
Patients with respiratory diseases, critical illness, or sleep disorders who lack health insurance endure disparities in access to care and worse health outcomes. These disparities were partly addressed in the United States in 2010 by passage of the Affordable Care Act. Low- and moderate-income indi...
| Publicado en: | Annals of the American Thoracic Society Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 324 - 329 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2016
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