Medical Bankruptcy: Still Common Despite the Affordable Care Act

Am J Public Health. 2019 Mar;109(3):431-433. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304901.

Authors

David U Himmelstein¹, Robert M Lawless¹, Deborah Thorne¹, Pamela Foohey¹, Steffie Woolhandler¹

Affiliation

¹ David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler are with Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Robert M. Lawless is with the University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign. Deborah Thorne is with the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Idaho, Moscow. Pamela Foohey is with the Maurer School of Law, Indiana University, Bloomington.

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MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Bankruptcy / economics*
Bankruptcy / statistics & numerical data*
Delivery of Health Care / economics*
Delivery of Health Care / legislation & jurisprudence*
Economics, Medical / statistics & numerical data*
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
United States