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Will Unininsured People Volunteer For Voluntary Health Insurance? Experience From Washington State, Paula Diehr
Will Unininsured People Volunteer For Voluntary Health Insurance? Experience From Washington State, Paula Diehr
Paula Diehr
OBJECTIVES: In national and local discussions of health care reform, there is disagreement about whether a national health insurance plan should be mandatory or voluntary. This study describes characteristics of low- income people who were more likely or less likely to be covered by a voluntary plan. METHODS: Survey data were available from an evaluation of Washington State's Basic Health Plan, which offered subsidized health insurance to low-income residents. For those subjects who were eligible and uninsured at baseline, those who joined were compared with those who did not join on a variety of demographic and health-related characteristics. RESULTS: There …