Low Income Families With Sick Children Often Enrolled In High-Deductible Health Care Plans

High-deductible health plans are increasingly used by healthy people who are unlikely to incur high medical expenses. But they also end up enrolling many low-income, vulnerable families, finds a study of Massachusetts families from Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School’s Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention (DACP). The study appears in the April issue of the journal Pediatrics.

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Filed under: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance on March 31st, 2009