Medical care economic risk: measuring financial vulnerability from spending on medical care

Analyses of the effects of including and excluding certain factors from the new SPM showed that, were it not for the cost that families incurred for premiums and other medical expenses not covered by health insurance, 10 million fewer people would have been poor according to the SPM. The implementat...

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Körperschaft: Panel on Measuring Medical Care Risk in Conjunction with the New Supplemental Income Poverty Measure (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: O'Grady, Michael J. (HerausgeberIn), Wunderlich, Gooloo S. (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, District of Columbia National Academies Press [2012]
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Zusammenfassung:Analyses of the effects of including and excluding certain factors from the new SPM showed that, were it not for the cost that families incurred for premiums and other medical expenses not covered by health insurance, 10 million fewer people would have been poor according to the SPM. The implementation of the patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides a strong impetus to think rigorously about ways to measure medical care economic burden and risk, which is the basis for Medical Care Economic Risk. As new policies - whether part of the ACA or other policies - are implemented that seek to expand and improve health insurance coverage and to protect against the high costs of medical care relative to income, such measures will be important to assess the effects of policy changes in both the short and long term on the extent of financial burden and risk for the population, which are explained in this report"--Publisher's description
Beschreibung:Description based on print version record
Beschreibung:1 online resource (311 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9780309266048
0309266041
9780309266055