Background: Many argue that “free” medical care leads to unnecessary use of health
resources. Evidence suggests that user fees do discourage physician use, at least by those …

Background: Universal health care systems seek to ensure access to care on the basis of
need, rather than income, but there are concerns about preferential access to cardiovascular …

Objectives: To examine medical care use and costs, patterns of morbidity and co-morbidity,
and other patient characteristics of high users of physician services in British Columbia …

Did the Massachusetts health reforms, which provided near-universal insurance coverage,
also address problems of unmet need resulting from the cost of care and of inadequate …

Background In recent years, policymakers have sought to reduce health disparities between
the insured and uninsured through a federal health insurance expansion policy; however …

PURPOSE Universal coverage of physician services should serve to reduce socioeconomic
disparities in care, but the degree to which a reduction occurs is unclear. We examined …

The early experience with health care reform efforts in Massachusetts may offer some
lessons. Massachusetts made heavily subsidized insurance available to residents with …

Objectives. We examined the impact of Massachusetts health reform and its public health
component (enacted in 2006) on change in health insurance coverage by perceived health …

Objective. To examine the effects of policy, health system, and sociodemographic
characteristics on the likelihood that uninsured persons pay a lower price at their regular …

In the most important health insurance study ever conducted researchers at the RAND
Corporation devised all experiment to address two key questions in health care financing …