Medical Bankruptcy: Still Common Despite the Affordable Care Act

Affiliations

¹ David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler are with Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Robert M. Lawless is with the University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign. Deborah Thorne is with the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Idaho, Moscow. Pamela Foohey is with the Maurer School of Law, Indiana University, Bloomington.

David U Himmelstein et al. Am J Public Health. 2019 Mar.

. 2019 Mar;109(3):431-433.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304901.

¹ David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler are with Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Robert M. Lawless is with the University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign. Deborah Thorne is with the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Idaho, Moscow. Pamela Foohey is with the Maurer School of Law, Indiana University, Bloomington.

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