Safety - Net Providers After Health Care Reform
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Background: National health reform is designed to reduce the number of uninsured adults. Currently, many uninsured individuals receive care at safety-net health care providers such as community health centers (CHCs) or safety-net hospitals. This project examined data from Massachusetts to assess how the demand for ambulatory and inpatient care and use changed for safety-net providers after the state’s health care reform law was enacted in 2006, which dramatically reduced the number of individuals without health insurance coverage.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011