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Children on Medicaid: Less Access, Longer Waits

JohnCGoodman
Last updated: June 17, 2011 3:00 pm
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Sixty-six percent of those who mentioned Medicaid-CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program) were denied appointments, compared with 11 percent who said they had private insurance, according to an Sixty-six percent of those who mentioned Medicaid-CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program) were denied appointments, compared with 11 percent who said they had private insurance, according to an article being published Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

In 89 clinics that accepted both kinds of patients, the waiting time for callers who said they had Medicaid was an average of 22 days longer.

Full NYT article on children on Medicaid. See commentary by Megan McArdle, Avik Roy and Austin Frakt.

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