Medical Care Economic Risk: Measuring Financial Vulnerability from Spending on Medical Care

by Institute of Medicine, Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council, et al.

The United States has seen major advances in medical care during the past decades, but access to care at an affordable cost is not universal. Many Americans lack health care insurance of any kind, and many others with insurance are nonetheless exposed to financial risk because of high premiums, deductibles, co-pays, limits on insurance payments, and uncovered services. One might expect that the U.S. poverty measure would capture these financial effects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309266041
• ISBN13: 9780309266048
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"