Even raising premiums slightly for Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program could dramatically reduce access to health care for poor children, suggests a recent report.
"Public insurance premiums often increase disenrollment from public insurance and may have unintended consequences on overall coverage for low-income children," concludes the study, which was lead by Brendan Saloner of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.
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