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Health Insurance Coverage and Health — What the Recent Evidence Tells Us

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  • Benjamin D. Sommers, M.D., Ph.D.,
  • Atul A. Gawande, M.D., M.P.H.,
  • and Katherine Baicker, Ph.D.

The authors report their analysis of the highest quality research over the past decade examining the effects of health insurance on health and conclude that insurance coverage increases access to care and improves health outcomes.

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Disclosure forms provided by the authors are available at NEJM.org.

This article was published on June 21, 2017, at NEJM.org.

Author Affiliations

From the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (B.D.S., A.A.G., K.B.), and the Departments of Medicine (B.D.S.) and Surgery (A.A.G.), Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital — all in Boston.

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