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Out-of-pocket health care expenses before, after Affordable Care Act

2021-04-09
(Press-News.org) What The Study Did:
Researchers analyzed changes in out-of-pocket health care expenses in the United States during the last two decades.

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Amit Jain, M.D., of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, is the corresponding author.

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