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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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Panel on Measuring Medical Care Risk in Conjunction with the New Supplemental Income Poverty Measure
Other Authors: O'Grady, Michael J. (Editor), Wunderlich, Gooloo S. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. National Academies Press [2012], 2012
Subjects:
Delivery Of Health Care / Economics
United States
Health Expenditures
Universal Health Insurance / Economics
Health Care Costs
Risk Assessment
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Collection: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • developing a measure of medical care economic risk-workshop summary (Introduction
  • Context for the workshop
  • Measuring medical care economic risk
  • Issues in the development of thresholds
  • issues in defining resources
  • Implementation issues
  • Recap of issues and next steps)
  • Resources for the study: background papers (Conceptual framework for measuring medical care ecnomic risk
  • Incorporating data on assets into measures of financial burdens of health
  • An assessment of data sources for measuring medical care economic risk)
  • Includes bibliographical references

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