The Impact of the Massachusetts Health Care Reform on Unpaid Medical Bills.
The Massachusetts health care reform was expected to reduce the financial burden of medical care, but literature exploring this effect is limited. In this study, we use hospital financial information and a panel data difference-in-difference model to assess the impact of the Massachusetts health car...
| Publicado en: | Inquiry (00469580) Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 165 - 177 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Aug2013
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