Health reform alone may not increase access to physicians or reduce healthcare inequality gaps
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 16:21
in Health & Medicine
In a new study, Harvard researchers looked at the effects of the 2006 Massachusetts Health Reform and found that the legislation has led to improvements in insurance coverage as well as a decline in financial barriers to care but has not increased people’s access to a personal physician or improve their self-rated health. Neither has it reduced healthcare inequalities between ethnic or income groups. These findings are published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.read more