Use of Health Services by Previously Uninsured Medicare Beneficiaries
Open Access
- 12 July 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 357 (2), 143-153
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa067712
Abstract
Previously uninsured adults who enroll in the Medicare program at the age of 65 years may have greater morbidity, requiring more intensive and costlier care over subsequent years, than they would if they had been previously insured.Keywords
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