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Previous Volume 330:1452-1453 May 19, 1994 Number 20 Next

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Some critics of current efforts to reform the American health care system claim that every American already has a catastrophic health insurance policy: the emergency room of the nearest hospital. With universal coverage thus in place, they ask, "What health care crisis"¹?

The papers by Stoddard et al. and the Medicaid Access Study Group, in this issue of the Journal, should give these critics pause^2,3. The investigators demonstrate that the lack of medical insurance is a barrier to health care, even for relatively serious medical conditions. In an earlier study, Franks et al. showed that, all else being . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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