One Step Forward, One Step Back: Children's Health Coverage after CHIP and Welfare Reform


 

Publication Date: September 1999

Publisher: Families USA

Author(s): Kathleen Haddad

Research Area: Health

Type: Report

Abstract:

A look at the availability of Medicare HMOs in non-metropolitan counties in the U.S., which finds that 73 percent of rural Medicare beneficiaries have no access to any Medicare HMO. Concludes that Medicare reform should not be predicated on HMOs.