Individual Health Insurance within the Family: Can Subsidies Promote Family Coverage?
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Individual health insurance within the family: can subsidies promote family coverage?
This paper examines the role of price in health insurance coverage decisions within the family to guide policy in promoting whole family coverage. We analyze the factors that affect individual health insurance coverage among families, and explore family decisions about whom to cover and whom to leave uninsured. The analysis uses household data from California combined with abstracted individual...
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عنوان ژورنال: INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0046-9580,1945-7243
DOI: 10.5034/inquiryjrnl_44.3.303