The financial burden of out-of-pocket expenses in the United States and Canada: How different is the United States?
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The financial burden of out-of-pocket expenses in the United States and Canada: How different is the United States?
BACKGROUND This article compares the burden that medical cost-sharing requirements place on households in the United States and Canada. It estimates the probability that individuals with similar demographic features in the two countries have large medical expenses relative to income. METHOD The study uses 2010 nationally representative household survey data harmonized for cross-national compa...
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عنوان ژورنال: SAGE Open Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2050-3121,2050-3121
DOI: 10.1177/2050312115623792