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Eroding access among nonelderly U.S. adults with chronic conditions: ten years of change

Catherine Hoffman1, Karyn Schwartz

  • 1Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Washington, DC, USA. choffman@kff.org

Health Affairs (Project Hope)
|July 24, 2008
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