State Efforts to Insure the Uninsured
An Unfinished Story
Research SummaryPublished Nov 25, 2005
An Unfinished Story
Research SummaryPublished Nov 25, 2005
Expanding public programs and new public subsidies are intended to make health insurance more readily available and affordable to low-income uninsured persons, regardless of their work status. A series of studies conducted by RAND economists Susan Marquis and Stephen Long have examined how successful these state experiments have been.
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