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America's children : health insurance and access to care / Margaret Edmunds and Molly Joel Coye, editors.

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America's children : health insurance and access to care / Margaret Edmunds and Molly Joel Coye, editors.
Publication
Washington, DC : National Academy Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Coye, Molly Joel
  • Edmunds, Margaret
  • Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Children, Health Insurance, and Access to Care
  • National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Children, Youth, and Families
Description
xv, 198 p. : ill.; 28 cm.
Summary
A comprehensive analysis of the relationship between health insurance and access to care. The book addreses three broad questions: How is children's health care currently financed? Does insurance equal access to care? How should the nation address the health needs of this vulnerable population?
Subject
  • Child Health Services
  • Child Health Services > United States
  • Child health services > United States > Finance
  • Financial Support
  • Financing, Government
  • Health Care Reform
  • Health Services Accessibility
  • Health Services Accessibility > United States
  • Health insurance > United States
  • Health services accessibility > United States
  • Insurance, Health
  • Insurance, Health > United States
  • Medicaid
  • Medically Uninsured
  • Medically Uninsured > United States
  • Medically uninsured persons > United States
  • Private Sector
  • Public Sector
  • United States
Note
  • "Committee on Children, Health Insurance, and Access to Care Division of Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine, and Board on Children, Youth, and Families, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
pt. I. Does Insurance Equal Access to Care? 1. Introduction and Overview. 2. Health Insurance and Children in America. 3. Health Insurance and Access to Care -- pt. II. Financing Health Care for Children. 4. Safety Net Providers. 5. Medicaid. 6. State and Private Insurance Initiatives. 7. Children's Health Care Needs. App. A. Market-Based Approaches to Insurance Reform / Robert B. Helms -- App. B. Information for Accountability -- App. C. Public Workshop Agenda and Participants -- App. D. Members of Liaison Panel -- App. E. Committee and Staff Biographies.
ISBN
0309065607 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^98025491^
OCLC
39515404
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library