Health Insurance: a Family Affair a National Profile and State-by-state Analysis of Uninsured Parents and Their Children
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Support for this research was provided by the Commonwealth Fund’s Task Force on the Future of Health Insurance under a grant to Sherry Glied at the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Analysis of data was undertaken jointly by the author and Columbia staff under the direction of Sherry Glied. The views presented here are those of the author and should not be attributed to The Commonwealth Fund or its directors, officers, or staff, or to members of the Task Force on the Future of Health Insurance.
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