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September 27, 2012

Analysis: Access To Health Care Beginning To Look Like Airline Travel

The old axis of access in U.S. health care — insured or uninsured – is being replaced by the kind of gradations and complexity in determining who-gets-what-when-for-what-price for which the airline industry has become famous.

Some recent data and reactions to the provisions of the Affordable Care Act reinforce the trend.

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Source: Kaiser Health News

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