Capping Medicaid Funding-Lessons From Puerto Rico

Affiliations

¹ Krista M. Perreira and Jonathan Oberlander are with the Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Jonathan Oberlander is also with the Department of Health Policy & Management, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health. David K. Jones is with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA.

Editorial

Krista M Perreira et al. Am J Public Health. 2017 Dec.

. 2017 Dec;107(12):1900-1901.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.304138.

¹ Krista M. Perreira and Jonathan Oberlander are with the Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Jonathan Oberlander is also with the Department of Health Policy & Management, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health. David K. Jones is with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA.

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