Rockefeller Experts Consider Health Care Reform

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ALBANY, N.Y. (October 15, 2010) ─ Two scholars from the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government and Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy have collaborated on articles that appeared in the Health Affairs Blog, a major forum for discussion about health policy news and research.

In the October 15, 2010 edition of the online publication, Courtney Burke, Director of the Health Policy Research Center at the Rockefeller Institute of Government and Erika Martin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at Rockefeller College examined two key issues that will demand much attention as health form goes forward:  the impact of phasing out Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments and access to care for undocumented immigrants and the costs of that care.  

Read the op-eds from Courtney Burke and Erika Martin that appeared in the October 15, 2010 Health Affairs Blog.

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