Healthcare Reform May Not Reduce
Medical Bankrupticies Study Suggests

 

Studying medical bankruptcies in Massachusetts, whose recent healthcare reform was a model for national reform, researchers found that while new insurance rules increased the number of people who had coverage, many were underinsured and struggling with medical debt. This new study, which was published this month in the American Journal of Medicine, suggests “that reducing medical bankruptcy rates in the United States will require substantially improved -- not just expanded – insurance."

Full article…from the LA Times

Linked from HEALTH CARE WEEKLY UPDATE, Barbara Roop & John Goodson, Health Care for Massachusetts, March 11, 2011.

 

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