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Calm Before The Storm: Expected Increase In The Number Of Uninsured Americans

In earlier work we asserted that health insurance coverage declined from 1979 to 1995 because the price of health care increased more rapidly than did personal income.¹ Here we examine whether the model we presented accounts for the observed path of health insurance coverage from 1996 through 1999, and we use this model to project changes in insurance coverage over the next decade under alternative assumptions about the rate of growth of health care spending and personal income.

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Using national health care spending data, we follow the procedure described in our earlier work to estimate per capita health spending for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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