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- Title
Challenges in Measuring the Affordability of US Health Care.
- Authors
Antos, Joseph; Capretta, James C.
- Abstract
An editorial is presented which addresses what the authors refer to as the challenges that are associated with the process of measuring the affordability of health care in the U.S. as of 2017, and it mentions another article in the same issue of the journal which deals with a proposed Affordability Index and household expenditures for medical care in America. Employer-sponsored insurance plans and government subsidies for health insurance and health insurance premiums are assessed.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MEDICAL care costs; MEASUREMENT; HOUSEHOLDS &; economics; EMPLOYER-sponsored health insurance; HEALTH insurance subsidies; HEALTH insurance premiums; MEDICAL care; ECONOMICS; HEALTH services accessibility
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2017, Vol 318, Issue 19, p1871
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
editorial
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2017.16188